Mom used to say that a person “had the same pants to get glad in that they got mad in”, and like many of the things she said and did, at the time, I overlooked the value of those words. I might have even rolled my eyes, although not if she could see my face – one did NOT roll their eyes at my mother. But her point was that even when the circumstances around us do not change, we can have the choice of how we react. Really, that is the only thing we can control, most of the time.
It’s easy to look around, and find in the world around us a seeming abundance of anger, and even rage. Violence, people lashing out, families splitting up, and increasing levels of antagonism against those who don’t see things the same as us. How did we get here? What leads to a mindset of seeing the other as the enemy? I am not a mental health professional, but I can see that things need to change, and hopefully you do, too. The last degree I got was a high school diploma, back when that ‘mattered’, but I can read and do research, and think critically. I hope you do, too. Maybe it’s not too late to change things.
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