Thursday, July 22, 2021
Today’s Gift from Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation is:
It is easy to fly into a passion — anybody can do that—but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and with the right object and in the right way — that is not easy, and it is not everyone who can do it. — Aristotle
Perhaps we were brought up in a household where anger was taboo and voices were never raised. Perhaps everything was bottled up because we were afraid of anger. But we were angry.
It’s hard to be angry appropriately. It needs to be learned, like so many things in our emotional life. If we haven’t learned to direct our anger in appropriate ways, we may find ourselves flying into sudden, inexplicable, and unfocused rages that scare us and people around us. Or else we behave sullenly and irritably for no apparent reason. Or we get mad now for something that happened twenty years ago.
In our program we learn to direct our anger and get angry in a justifiable and appropriate way. It’s good to get rid of our anger for the past so that we can concentrate on living fully in the present.
Today I’m going to try and deal honestly with my feelings, especially my anger.
Hazelden Foundation
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