One of the strongest emotions we as humans have is anger.  And from my personal experience, it’s a bad emotion to carry around with us.  And boy have I carried around my fair share of it over the years. We carry around pent up hostilities that weigh us down and make our already difficult lives even harder than they need to be. We refuse to let go of these real or imagined slights against us, and they fester inside like old wounds.

I found many amazing quotes about anger when I started looking around a few days ago. There were a ton of note worthy lines, but I’ll narrow it down to just a few.

Anger is an acid that does more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to on which anything it is poured.

-Mark Twain

And…

Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting someone else to die.

-Buddha

And lastly…

Fear is the path to the dark side.  Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering.

-Yoda

Anger causes the most mild mannered people to do crazy things.  Things that are so far out of character,  our closest friends and family would have to see us on camera to believe we were capable of actions such as those.  All too often, we make excuses for our loved ones who have “tempers” that just get out of hand sometimes.  We see warning signs from these people, but often we chose to over look them because of the nature of the relationship we have with that person.  I was with someone who had an awful temper and I chose to ignore the warning signs.  Warning signs such as her throwing a set of tray tables at me during an argument.  Things that should never be okay or given a pass over, whether it is done by man or woman.

In all honesty, I got mad the other day.  (Well, about a week ago.)  I hadn’t been that mad in a long time.  And it was all over a stupid picture on social media.  I know, you don’t have to say it… I’m an idiot.  I’m just like everyone else.  I saw this pic and assumed it was meant so I would see it and I was seething Inside.  I vented to anyone who would listen, which was about two people.  That helped a little but not as much as it usually does.  It wasn’t until I was lying down that night in bed that I got some sort of peace over the whole situation.  I sat there and I prayed for the person I was mad at. And that is a big thing for me because I am not nearly as religious as I know I should be.  But I didn’t pray for this person as if she had done something wrong because she hadn’t.  The perceived slight was all in my head.  I just prayed that this person would be happy in all her endeavors for all the days of her life.  And honestly, how can I fault anyone for moving on with her life, just like I am making my best efforts to move on with mine?

Anger is something that we are all going to deal with our entire lives.  Some of us do a better job than others at dealing with our anger.  I’ve always been the type to have to be extremely angry for anyone who doesn’t really know me to see I’m angry.  Now just like everyone, I do have my breaking point.  I just bottle up all my anger and bury it way down deep, which I am sure is very healthy for me and will not at all cause a stroke or heart attack years from now.  So to end things, I leave you with this final quote…

In your anger, do not sin: Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry

-Ephesians 4:26

Have a great day 😉

A. Failure