howeird: (Colonel Sanders)
howard stateman ([personal profile] howeird) wrote in [personal profile] avevale_intelligencer 2011-06-25 04:44 pm (UTC)

Keeping anger locked up inside is a prescription for ulcers and a heart attack. Unless, perhaps, you are a Zen monk. They apparently learn how to connect to the main drain, but at the cost of a normal social life.

If the only side effects of your anger are bad feelings all around, you are one very lucky fellow. In some people, side effects included broken windows, smashed furniture, smashed furniture being thrown through windows, fisticuffs and the occasional stabbing with the nearest pointy object. In extreme cases, setting fire to things and blowing stuff up can occur.

As others have pointed out, choosing your forum is important. So is choosing what you vent about, and the words with which you do it. You are so very good with words - the same talent to deliver a scathing comment can be used to turn it into something more tactful, if not a compliment. Best advice my mother ever gave me, I think.


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