All the fury

When you consider some major celebrity outbursts as of late you might think of Tiger Woods, Serena Williams, Kanye West, and Joe Wilson.

I often encourage "anger" as an emotion that deserves attention and expression. Mostly because if you suppress it, it can do equally damaging things. But just how ugly is it, when you catch yourself doing something so stupid?

If I could record my thoughts while I'm driving in the car, and play them back to random strangers... they'd think I was the most hateful person in the world. What is it personally costing us to be this way?

I can hardly watch the news without getting fired up about something beyond my reach, say, or control. We ought to be very tired by now of all the parents who can't parent their children by turning off the TV. Or of all the people who signed up for credit cards, making purchases beyond their means to pay back. Nevermind all the people who chose fast food meals, doughnuts for breakfast, and their carbonated drinks... then complain about how pitiful and unhealthy they are.

When did we decide to give up our personal power, so we could resign ourselves of all accountability?

When did we have to make our problems, other people's problems? And seriously, why do we adopt complicated scenarios that have nothing to do with us?

Instead of telling people,"This is your problem, you own it, now you got to deal with it yourself." We feel sorry for them, we enable them further and tell them life is not fair. If people are going to make excuses for you all your life, then why grow up at all? Why not stay in a diaper?

Sure there are exceptions, and I hate to have to type out a disclaimer for the people who are swept up by unforseen forces. But this is why it's called an exception and not the rule.

Learning not to adopt other people's drama and problems in a culture that often encourages it, is something I still strive for. There can be so many legitimate and arbitrary things to become irritated with... every day is an oppertunity to get pissed off...

But why? When wearing that emotion can be so expensive.