Anger is a normal emotional response in humans, but its expression can vary widely. While some individuals exhibit a healthy expression of anger, others exhibit more extreme or unhealthy expressions.
More often, people get incited to anger by external stimulants—an offense from someone, societal pressure, a nagging wife, an irresponsible husband, an annoying friend, etc. Sometimes, we are incited to anger by internal stimulants—realization of one’s own action(s), unhappiness with one’s way of living, etc.
As much as there is a basis for our anger, I believe that there should be a limit to its expression. In cases where we ignore the limit, it results in actions that leave us with irreversible regrets, or leave things in an irredeemable state.
This brings to mind the real-life experience of a certain couple. This couple, at the beginning of every year, would write down the goals they wanted to accomplish for the year. They never accomplished any of those goals. The reason wasn’t far-fetched. The man often got into an uncontrollable state of anger.
Whenever a quarrel ensues between the couple, the man, before beating his wife (which usually results in a fight), would destroy their valuable household properties just because his wife made contributions toward the purchase—what a setback!
Read the full content in my book, “Living Without Regrets.”