ANGER

Do you still get angry and throw all caution to the wind because you think someone has wronged you? Because they have acted stupidly you too must talk rashly and raise your voice. You too must spew venom! You are only displaying your lack of humility. You are also indulging yourself in your weaknesses, for it indeed takes more effort and maturity and humility to maintain your calm no matter the provocation. As children we were told: so if someone tells you to put your fingers in the fire will you? Same here. Their bad behavior is not an excuse for you to become a terrorist! If you call a fool a bloody fool, it does not make him more of a fool but it reveals that you have a lot to do about your own manners! Ralph Waldo Emerson was quoted to have said: “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”

Harmony alone furthers us. May we resolve from now on to embrace refinement and that great simplicity which lies in the naturalness of perpetual self-control.