Today in my psychology class I learned that anger isn’t actually ‘human’ so much as it’s just a state of being a person enters into when they are frustrated or annoyed with a person so much simply because the person, the one that is frustrated, wants everyone to be ‘just like them’. It’s the mentality of ‘if you were just like me, then I would like you right now.’
It makes a lot of sense and yet is so difficult to wrap your head around because anger is just an emotion in our minds. It just is a function of our being, not a something that’s been injected into our brains through our culture and our influenced perspective. To live in a world where others do not become angry when people set them off would be pretty amazing. That’s not to say that I’m above it all, I tend to get mad at others for doing things that are out of my control just like anyone else. But admit it, it would be great if these standards could be broken down and people could get over themselves. Oddly enough the article we read about saying “farewell” to anger said that the key to letting anger go was to think more highly of oneself and just let it go when others act in a way that isn’t like you and which you find negative.
There’s so much one can learn from this subject that it just boggles my mind and sometimes I wonder how I would be if I’d been introduced to the concept sooner. Then again, I tend to practice many of the calming techniques in psychology already so, interesting little tidbit there.
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