let go of my anger

“Acid eats its container”

I wish I’d said that.

And she tells me that she has a hard time letting go of sadness, but that anger just dissapears for her. I suggested using gratitude and appreciation to overcome sadness (from the book What Happy People Know) and she hadn’t heard of that.

I told her that I have a really hard time letting go of anger and we discussed being angry at a bottlecap sitting on the table in front of us. She asked me a couple of simple questions. Is your anger going to undo what happened that caused the anger? No. Are you going to remove the bottlecap from your life? Probably not. So why are you wasting your energy on that? Uh – I don’t know.

It feels like she was on onto something, but maybe there’s one more missing question, or something. Any idea what that can be?

I’ve decided to ride it, rather than let it go.

But really, something that has helped is a blog I created a year or so ago – it doesn’t have any identifying info in it, and I’ve used it to vent my anger… And as I go back and look at the stuff I’ve written over time, a lot of it is gone…