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The question that is the heading of this "Discussion" has shaken me up for a few days now. For all the anger I have when someone upsets me, do I have an equal amount of appreciation when I have the opportunity for peace?
I've stopped thinking about blame so much. I care less now. I think about us humans as little boats on the ocean. Everyone's just tiny and nobody is in control, nobody sees as much as they think they do, nothing is certain. This was just the first analogy that came to me.
And why did I seek anger over peace? Anger is optimistic enough to motivate you and try and change things (regardless of how you do it, anger makes you feel in control).
It's my ego, my idea that what I see is the whole world. It's a sense of importance that I give to my own existence. I make myself bigger than I am. Signficance doesn't come through size.
I'm scared of a lot of things. I'm positive that I have several monsters living in my head. My mind is like a fucking zoo for monsters and every now and then one gets out and hunts me until I manage to shut it back out.
There's really many things... Just really many things..
So, in life get your boat empty : )
I do like your analogy of us all tiny boats on an endless sea. As far as the ramming boats... I think if I continued to ram empty ones I would grow angry... at myself for continuing to do this.... but maybe too because so many were left empty in the first place.
pride. You have to learn to identify the primary emotion and deal with it."
Now, when I am angry, I try to ask myself, "What are you really feeling?" So often, when I allow myself to give up the anger, I start to cry. Crying is not always productive either, but it at least, gets me to a place where I am willing to start working on solving the problem productively. Hope this helps, my friend.