When We’re Angry
When we are upset with someone, we sometimes say things we don’t mean. The overwhelming emotions of the moment take hold, and you are more inclined to say all manner of terrible things, the likes of which the rational you wouldn’t even think. Or would you?
I understand that people often say hurtful things when they are hurting, but these hurtful things don’t just appear from the ether. They might come from something very real inside of each of us. On some level, these insults have probably crossed a person’s mind before the moment when they sharpened mere ideas into blades and shoved them deep into the hearts of their loved ones.
The words might hurt a little on their own, but they’re usually nothing one hasn’t thought about him/herself or been told by someone else. What hurts the most is never being able to trust or be trusted after a loss of control. The real damage is the dissonance in discovering the difference in what we thought to be true, the unguarded way we see others, and the way they may see us.
