Anger:
I just started reading this book on anger. The definition of anger is: a strong feeling of displeasure and belligerence aroused by a real or supposed wrong. My definition of anger: An emotion that can give you energy, strength, can release warm and good feelings and give you relief from tension but anger can also destroy you and others. Anger is a part of life, it is a part of each of us. Angry feelings tell you that something is not the way you want it to be. Now here is where I am weak and where I mess up........I get to the part where I realize something is not the way I want it to be but I NEVER express it appropriately. I close up myself and try to pretend that the anger is not there. It is like putting a tea pot of water on a stove and slowly turning the heat up. I build my anger until.....I boil. I hate being angry. I mean, really, who likes feeling angry? I get so consumed in my anger that I actually start disliking myself more than the person that is causing my anger. The best part of being like a boiling tea pot? When you remove a tea pot from the heat, it cools off. So, until I finish my book, I am going to sing, "I'm a little tea pot" everytime I get angry.