Learning to Manage our Anger


by June Stepansky - Date: 2007-03-06 - Word Count: 144 Share This!

If fathers

can molest their daughters,

if mothers

can abuse their children,

if husbands can stab their wives

and women shoot their lovers,

is it so surprising

that strangers can

annihilate each other

with such

equanimity?

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Anger and violence are not strangers to us. We see them in our homes, in our offices and on our streets. We must begin to investigate, both personally and socially, the causes of our collective anger.

Whether our anger is triggered by our past frustrations, our present inadequacy or our inability to make the good decisions that are necessary to control our lives personally and financially, we all must ultimately bear the responsibility for our actions.

Each of us has a duty to himself and to our world to become an individual of strength and maturity.

If we begin to make these changes in our lives, we will, perhaps, begin to also achieve a more rational and a more caring society.


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June Stepansky is a published poet and writer who now has a monthly self-help web-site on the internet.
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