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RE: Letting Go of Anger (a “How To?” question, not a “How To” guide)
Most times that’s how I feel too - it’s been tamed but it’s there and I’m always angry.
Good advice to think about why people acted the way they acted - maybe that will help me understand it if not accept it.
I will check out your link now. Thanks again for the thoughtful comment!
All we can do is the best we can, as long as we are trying we are improving. Like i said we are all individuals, so we must find our own path, but if we are open and honest with ourselves and others we can share our experience sand help one another find our own best ways :)
Much love, hope it helped out a bit :)
It did, thank you very much for taking the time to reach out with your thoughtful words 🙂
no probs mate, much love in your direction :)
Anger is part of being human.
BTW: Getting angry at one's self for getting angry is one of those odd paradoxes that defines life.
I am so mad at myself that I got angry. harummmppphhhh!
I rarely get angry when bad things are done to me, but I get angry when I see the same thing done to others. What really ticks me off is when people engage in activities which undermine the people around them.
The big anger I have at the moment is that Conservative Movement appears to have undermined the Tea Party. The Tea Party was right. There was something wrong with both the corporate bailout and ObamaCare. Conservative pundits undermined the debate around these issues. The result is that the movement failed to come up with alternatives. Conservatives got people to hate ObamaCare, but they do not have an alternative. It is infuriating because we could have a better health care bill if we had a decent health care debate.
Since you've started writing; you've probably figured out that anger is useful.
A writer can analyze their anger and come up with interesting insights.
A writer can quickly realized how misdirected anger hurts people.
I think it is possible, as a writer, to focus anger on an issue to highlight an injustice. This technique rarely works. The anger creates an echo chamber.
The subject of how anger creates an echo chamber would be an interesting topic. It wouldn't work well on SteemIt as SteemIt favors short articles that focus on a single topic.
I've been trying to figure out how to expose the dangers of partisanship. Partisans gain power by creating anger against their partisan opposition.
That is difficult to expose in a SteemIt post, but can be exposed in longer format writing.
Anyway, I think it is great to analyze the things that makes one angry. As a writer one can explore the direction that expressions of anger take. It usually leads people down dark paths.
Thanks for the feedback and the thoughtful comment, @yintercept. Sounds like you and I share some "triggers". It was helpful for me to write about this, and I do intend to continue.
Sometimes thinking about what makes me angry and trying to analyze it just makes me... angrier, heh. But I suppose you have to tackle it sooner or later.
Thanks again for the reply!
When I write about things that anger me I get depressed.
Those culture war articles I put in my feed really make me depressed.
I keep feeling that if I can just figure out how to express to people who get too caught up in the left/right split that it is the false dichotomy of the split which is destroying us and not the opposition on the other side of the divide.
The war is the thing that is causing the misery ... not the soldiers in the other army.
So, what I am hoping to create a set of arguments I could use to help people diffuse the political tension that is creeping into their lives ... but if I do it wrong, I will just increase the tension.
Yeah it’s certainly a dilemma. I have had to make choices on whether or not I would engage a friend or family member on certain topics. The advice I was given was to only say something if I could say it out of love. I am not there yet. Anything I say would be out of anger. So I stay silent while I work on myself.