Lol no it’s a natural emotion. It doesn’t make you weak to feel. People are often encouraged not to express/feel certain emotions like anger or sadness, but it’s a normal human reaction and is what makes us human. How you react and express those emotions I think is more what determines certain things like strong or weak.
@Stark well said. Getting angry is not a weakness. Throwing a punch or picking up a weapon in anger is a weakness. Strength is controlling how you express the anger. Weakness is in letting the anger control you. Foolishness is trying to not feel it at all.
@karysma You shouldn’t dwell on it but I think it’s okay for you to feel and process sadness or anger when you’re upset. I think it’s more healthy than suppressing it and a more practical way of living. But I also understand what you’re saying about dwelling on it and not entertaining it. I don’t think it should take over but I think it’s okay to process it and deal with it in healthy ways.
@Stark I do my best not to get angry at anybody and I love that about myself. I kinda act and talk crazy when I'm angry. I'm better off not flirting with that feeling to be honest.
It is if you don't have a hold of it or a way to express it. Since I started learning to fight and sparring recently, I've unlocked more of my anger but it comes out in a healthy way that has some catharsis. I've also done the shadow work in therapy to be able to recognise and respect my anger as a valid and positive aspect of myself.
Society puts down anger and supresses it without offering a healthy release for it. This is creating internalised anger in people and with a healthy expression of that it can be helpful like it's meant to be. We're made to feel shame when we feel angry, which makes us even more angry.
The key to take away is that supressed emotion coming out into the world is like an untamed animal that doesn't function in society, it will express itself like that. Getting in touch with and incorporating that aspect of ourselves will allow us to intergrate it in ourselves and have control and the enrichment of that in our lives.
@Ryannnnnn Personally getting angry drains me. I used to be angry from my teens all through my 20s. It's when that need to be angry at the world packed and left that I felt unburdened. It's the best feeling ever.
Doesn't mean I don't lose it from time to time 😅but I'm quick to come back to my senses knowing that if I give into it I'll be left with regret.
There is positive anger and negative anger. Positive anger is energizing. It gets things done, makes changes. Negative anger will just give you high blood pressure and may be harmful to others if not controlled.
@Eternity How can I rest when I feel guilty afterwards cause I act crazy when I'm angry. It's the reason I just shut up when a conversation starts getting out of hand.
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Anger, just like any other human emotion is neither a strength nor a weakness but depending on the way you handle your emotions it can either strenghten you or make you weak. Personally I lash out on objects or myself when I am angry and I know that makes me weak.
@SW-User I'm sorry about that. Self hate is no fun. I used to struggle with it myself and I realized the root of it is comparing yourself with other people. Once you look in the mirror and tell yourself you're beautiful just the way you are it'll be the beginning of acceptance which would bring happiness to your heart.
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@karysma Thank you! I hope I'll be able to experience happiness one day.
@SW-User I hope so too. You got to understand though that happiness is not a gift that comes in a package brought by somebody or something. It's already in you. All you got to do is work to unleash it. Begin with cutting off negative thoughts and people that make you feel inferior and replace them with thoughts and people that encourage you. Even when you talk to yourself do it with love. When you look in the mirror look at yourself with love.
Most of emotions have meaning when related and about to something else. Anger and joy, love and disgust, esteem and sadnes.... Are not or shouldn´t be, IMO, inconditional attributes of that oh so praised "inner" and "self", but our answers to our interaction and dialog with life out there. To rage over minutia is, yes, a meassure of our worries, may be sometimes a weakness relative to the small magnitude of it´s reasons. To be scared or indiferent and not feel anger about injustice is weaknes.
Not in itself no. It has its function like all our emotions do. Any emotion can however be a weakness if you don't learn to balance it. Except maybe in fields where it's required. If you channel it into a space that demands it, it's not always a bad thing. Like sports or in competitive industries.
It's a survival thing. If we never became angry we would not know enough to run when threatened. The main thing is not to LIVE with undying anger in your heart.
@Helloeveryone I'm not sure everyone feels it though. I've known my brother all my life but I've never seen him angry. He'd get upset and frustrated when we were kids but never angry.
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Yes it is because you can’t control it if you’re weak
