My son, Luke, asked me recently, “Mom, why are you so angry?” I was a little surprised to hear that in a conversation with my son, but it’s a question that, to me, is perfectly understandable. Although I have been a psychologist, I only have a limited amount of information regarding anger, and this is all I have to go on.
So, I’m going to try to tell you a story that I’ve been told by many, many people. I’ve had many, many conversations with people about anger. Although I’ve had a great deal of experience with anger, I’m still learning.
Some of the anger I encounter is because some people are just being mean to me. I am one of those people. I have to constantly be careful to try to make sure that people dont act inappropriately with me. But other times, people are just being plain rude, even to me. Ive had friends who told me that I can never be friends with people. That I cannot be friends with people because they are so mean to me. Ive heard this a lot.
A lot of the time, it seems as if people are being mean to me because they are being mean to themselves. Im just the person who has to be careful to make sure that people dont act inappropriately with me. But other times, Ive just been talking to my friends and they are not being mean to me. I feel like Im the only person in the world saying these things, but it really isnt that.
Im sure you have encountered this issue too. Im sure you have gotten at least one person who is acting weird. Ive been in situations where I feel like I have to walk away from my friends to avoid being left a message where they could be upset. But, that didnt mean that they were being mean to me. It just meant that I had to think twice about leaving a message.
It’s difficult to know how you will react to being verbally abused. It might be easy for you to just walk away, but it can also be difficult to just not say anything.
You can always say something. Like, if you’re sitting on the floor and your friend is coming at you with a meat cleaver, and you know that, you can say, “hey, hey, hey, hey!” (or something similar).
It might even be easier to just not say anything. But, I would probably just not say anything at all. For a lot of people, saying nothing is just not an option. I know this because I have friends that don’t usually talk to people they don’t know too well. When I was younger, I had friends that I talked to and only talked to on occasion.
I mean, how big is he? It’s pretty clear that the game is about a bird who takes a bird’s path into the birdhouse when he’s upset. And, I don’t think that anyone is going to say, hey, hey, hey, hey, because they know that’s stupid. But, I think it is possible that it might be possible to say something and then just not say anything.
I can’t give you a clear cut answer for this one. I think its possible that you could say something and not say anything and have people that dont know you think you are being overly dramatic and that you are being overly sensitive.
