The 7 Sins: Anger

I feel that as an English person ( and I stress not a Brit) that I should say something about the riots in the UK.

I imagine there is a lot of anger at the moment in Britain. Anger from people who have been injured, or whose loved ones have lost their lives, people who have been targeted by criminals and had their businesses or homes destroyed. Anger causes a lot of problems that is not needed. I think people should be learn to be considerate of each other and realise that they live in a good country that is able to provide them with luxuries like televisions, designer labels, fast food (inc. chocolate, crisps etc), for these are things that we do not need but what people want. To live comfortably humans need love and car, food and drink and shelter. We need little more than this, in fact many people in the world do not get some of these things and suffer their entire lives.

On the other hand we have selfish people who revel in the the rioting occurring in this country at the moment and some of it may be pursued by those who feel anger towards the government for making cuts on jobs on benefits. Anger towards the government or the police will not solve any problems, acting on this anger will only make it worse. Now more money needs to be put into schemes to fix the damage that has been done and people who are affected will feel anger towards these rascals.

To get peace in society first people need to find peace within themselves and anger will stop all this from happening. Those of you that are angry at times remember to stop and think about things you are not angry about and smile.

As a wise woman once said to me : "The world is our mirror, we see what is inside of ourselves." If you feel anger you will only inject it into other people around you. Take a deep breath find something to smile at today. Let your inner peace exude yourself and reach out to others for the greater good.

As Bill Bailey once said (after having ingested the little book of calm) "Add a dab of lavender to milk, leave town with an orange and pretend your laughing at it."

Peace and Love

(Here some extra thoughts 10 days later.)

Anger is often something people use to mask other feelings. Anger is easy to feel and easier to show to other people and the rest of the world. There are some people you will always be able to show your true self to and those people are clearly ones you trust and perhaps love. Those people are good for you and will remove your mask of anger and hopefully be able to help you keep that mask off for good.

On the other hand a mask of anger in itself is relaxing and in some bizarre way can keep you happy and elated for a time, but how long?

The more I think and the more I am alone with myself I find myself thinking that I am in fact a very angry person and I can not give an explanation as to why. Even on days where I feel really happy I may often make comments in mid conversation, which I know are harsh (like I don't like her because she's ugly!). These comments are not me, they're not really what I think or how I feel, in fact it is a mask of anger that hides my jealously or perhaps my lack of self confidence.

Hopefully, anger is something that can be over come in the years to come as I would not wish these feelings of anger on anyone especially not on any possible children, and certainly not on members of my family or friends as I care about them and if I am not able to show them my love then hopefully I can cause them no harm.