Daily Musings: This is an Anger-Free Zone By Rusen Kumar

Chanced upon this poster shared by a gentleman, when I opened my Facebook account this morning. The poster read, “This is an Anger-free zone”. The striking message kind of forced me to introspect and rethink my understanding of anger. Where and who does the message belong and address. Let’s think about this amazing subject. 

Anger usually spoils the game. Anger does not help anymore. Anger is always harmful. Anger hurts both the given and the recipient. Anger is an inflammable substance. Anger is a dirty emotion, a devil power. It is destructive; it is a bull in the china shop. Anger is a bad vide and it can burn anything and everything. A little spark can also burn, as does the big fire. 

Just as the temperature remains in the body, similarly does the temperature of anger in the mind. We can control our anger by controlling our mind, as we can control the volume of a radio by rotating its knob.

Why do we get angry? The main reason for getting angry at another person is to create fear in the mind of that person. We use anger to scare people, as anger leads to fright. Who do we get angry at? We get angry at those who are weaker to us, as we know the dire consequences of getting angry at a person who is stronger than us. When do we get angry? When a person’s inner love dries up, it automatically leads to anger.

Who makes us angry? It is our habit, wherein we keep practicing to get angry, knowingly or unknowingly, we keep getting angry. Sometimes, it remains buried, sometimes it blurts out. We tend to do whatever we practice, as a practice.

Why do we get angry? We can keep ourselves from getting angry, as long as we feel we are better and bigger than others. As parents we get angry at children, as an enterprise owner we get angry at our employees. Whoever believes himself to be greater in any form, understands, or has understood, is believed to be entitled only and only to anger.

Where do we get anger from? We inherit it. When we see our parents get angry, it naturally gets imbibes in our psyche. As we observe various people get angry in the society, we tend to emulate them. As we are good at emulating. Is it ok to get angry? The only situation that justifies our anger is one wherein our life is in danger, wherein getting angry may help us save our body and our life. Anger can be used to save our life but not to put others’ life in danger.

What is the way out? How do we win over our anger? We need to talk to our inner consciousness and keep reiterating that we need to overcome anger, assuming that we are weak, poor, ignorant, fallen, helpless and we can put up a huge board at the entry of our conscious mind stating that this is an anger free zone.

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The article is authored by Rusen Kumar. The article was first published in Hindi.

English adaptation by Arun Arora, a renowned communication professional, who is fond of reading, writing, and learning, all the time.

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