Philosophical Ramblings

Anger is a powerful emotion, denoting a strong feeling of displeasure or hostility towards something or someone. Long ago, a wise old man once told me that anger was a natural response to certain stimuli, but what is more important is how one deals with the anger and the way in which one expresses it. Does one master the anger or allow oneself to be mastered by it?

I have learned that it is not healthy (perhaps not even safe) to others or even oneself to compartmentalize an emotion as volatile as anger. One assumes that bottling up the feeling – suppressing it – will make it disappear. It does, but only temporarily, for the feeling still remains within you, stored, retained, hidden as if in some deep and dark vault, awaiting to somehow become manifest. Eventually the total culmunation of that suppressed anger bursts in a devastating and volatile explosion of rage – an incredible and powerful eruption of emotion that overcomes the faculty of reason whilst simultaneously draining both the body and the mind of its energy. Rationality becomes irrelevant, as one is overcome almost entirely by the turbulent wave of all that pent-up emotion rising to the surface to be released. The consequences of this, socially and emotionally, can be destructive.