hmm
May 17, 2008 
Sometimes you have to wonder: what’s really making you angry? Are you really upset with the foolishnesses and frailties of others? Or is it just something within you that you refuse to give voice to? So how do you fix it? How do you release a spring so it falls to the ground instead of blasting away out of control?
I look sometimes at the people at similar stages in life to me and wonder: are you happy? Are you just grinning for the photos because you know that you will show them to your friends? Because I do that too.
1st Gent. Our deeds are fetters that we forge ourselves.
2d Gent. Ay, truly: but I think it is the world
That brings the iron.
–George Eliot,Middlemarch
I think anger is a symptom of a deeper problem, frustration. Frustration in my mind is merely the difference between Reality and expectation. The tendency here is to lower our standards and give in to our reality, when I believe the answer is to focus on our expectations and allow our vision to draw us to our future. Then hope is allowed to reign in our lives, and not frustration. If the fruit of frustration is anger, then the fruit of hope if faith.
I have decided to not allow my current reality to keep me from my future expectations, and the practice of this seems to keep Anger from ruling my life.
just a thought
David
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