Anger is diesel
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There are six core emotions: happiness, sadness, surprise, fear, disgust and anger. Each is a choice.
But of those, anger is the only one that doesn’t create anything helpful in the long run.
We like to convince ourselves otherwise, believing it’s a fuel that burns clean: especially in the face of facts where there’s been wrongdoing and indifference to the harm that someone has caused.
But even then, it’s just a story we tell ourselves. It’s still a choice.
Anger—the kind we allow to break to the surface—never leaves us with clean hands.
Anger burns dirty like diesel.
It pollutes your thinking and poisons your capacity for picking better emotions. It burns hot and powers something that remains in motion far longer than the harm that sparked those feeling in the first place: your sense of being owed something.
“How much more harmful are the consequences of anger, Marcus Aurelius once asked, “than the circumstances that aroused them in us?” You pay a price for it.
If anger is—as Buddhist thought cautions—akin to carrying a hot coal in your hands, expecting it to burn others, then hatred is the blisters it leaves on your fingers.
Stop burning yourself.
Very best, Patrick
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