Nine-year-old Christina Taylor Green was born Sept. 11, 2001. She died in an attack attributable to the violent rhetoric that is fashionably dividing the world, although the shooter was certainly just a looney responding to the resonances. Her organs have been donated to a young girl in Boston. Giving life as she leaves. This sticks in my mind, this generosity of spirit. This small saint. This occasion I really hope there are saints and heaven, just for her.
A boddhisatva.
Let go of the hate that feels as good as heroin and meth, and ruins us as surely.
A lesson in compassion.
Turn away from the anger. If every one of us, each chose kindness over hostility, every moment of every day, we could handle the occasional mental illness as the aberration it should be.
Take the time to consciously be kind, start here. Gentle ourselves. Eschew the easy pleasure of ranting and raging, even, especially, inside our own heads. Think well of others, especially those most difficult, most anger-trapped people. They need to learn, they need to discipline themselves. Calling them on it it one thing, allowing ourselves high dudgeon, judging their souls, quite another.
Understand, forgive, add peace to the world, one drop at a time. Breathe in calm. Breathe out serenity. Every breath.
The simple acts are the most difficult. The most worthwhile.
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Zhoen, I read this this morning, and although it's a different set of circumstances, I think it may be broadly resonant with what you've written here.
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Good intentions, certainly.
Can we perhaps separate certain types of anger from the hostile kind?
RtheS,
Anger as a choice, when feeling frustration, bewilderment, fear. A bad choice that destroys relationships and becomes a positive feedback loop of righteous rage. By that definition, no, there is no good reason for anger. Anger is not an emotion, but a reaction to an emotion, and a self indulgent, malfunctioning one.
Anger is a monster, best not to feed it.
Thankyou.
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