The Most Devastating Emotions That a Person Can Have: Anger

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Apologized

Simple words, yet so effective, for it stopped his punch in mid-fight. I apologized to him for saying stupid things and to my surprise he apologized to me saying stupid things too. The tension changed to laughter. The animosity vanished like a puff of smoke. We shook hands and soon were talking like old friends. We remained friends till the day he was transferred away.

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Explosive Incident

From that incident I realized how dangerous anger can be. If we had persisted in our anger, I dread to think what the outcome would have been. I thank my mother for guiding me through this particularly explosive incident. Instead of letting anger run its full course, I transformed it into an opportunity to make peace. Anger gave way to mutual understanding and friendship. A little giving in on my part did the trick.

I have seen instances where anger was allowed to run wild. The consequences were never good. Sometimes the parties involved find pot too late the folly of their actions. For example, I once saw a man losing his temper in a food-stall. For one reason or another, I saw him red-faced shouting at the stall-owner. Then he lashed out with his leg at the offending man. A heavy wooden chair stood between his leg and his intended victim and he ended up on the floor with a badly bruised shin. All we could do was to laugh at him. I wonder how many of us would not have got into the situation as he did if we angry enough.

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Anger Must Be Avoided

The Japanese have a saying for anger. When you are angry, do not act; when you act, do not be angry. What this saying implies is that, any act prompted by anger must be avoided. A short story will illustrate the point.

A samurai came home late one night. He stepped quietly into his house and was shocked to find a prone figure asleep beside his wife. In anger he drew his sword to kill his wife and her lover. But he remembered the above saying. So he sheathed his sword and stepped quietly outside. Next he noisily knocked on the door and re-entered the house, hoping to give the intruder a chance to escape. As he entered the house he saw his wife emerging from her room, followed by his own mother! What a shock he had. His mother had been sleeping in his wife’s room to keep his wife company as there had been many burglars around. The samurai was so relieved that he had not acted in anger.

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Cool – Headed

I practice the above maxim whenever I can. It enables me to act cool-headedly. Acting without the veil of anger to blind my eyes prevents me from doing things that I will regret later. If you care to, try it for your-self and see how effective it is.