Anger !!!

"Being angered is the greatest defeat to a human being."

.Kazi Shams

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My brother and I caused my mother a lot of grief while we were growing up. Our parents loved us, but when our mother became upset, she would lose her temper and yell at us in a high-pitched voice.

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Eventually my brother and I grew up, married, and had familes of our own. My family visited our parents two or three times a year, and my mother was always patient and understanding. She never lost her temper or yelled at me anymore.

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Then during one of our visits, when I bathed my two little daughters, quite a bit of water splashed on the floor. I dried the girls, dressed them for bed, and sent them out of the bathroom so I could clean up. Just as I was wiping up the floor with one of the towels I had used to dry the girls, my mom came into the bathroom and immediately lost her self-control.

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"What are you doing?" she yelled. "You don't use my towels for wiping the floor! That's what the mop is for!"

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I looked up at her in shocked surprise. She marched out, returned with a mop, and shooed me out of her way while she did things the right way.

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Later she came to me with a sheepish look on her face. In a controlled, reflective tone she apologized, "I'm sorry, I thought I had gained the victory over my temper and yelling at you kids. But I learned something about myself tonight. I didn't really gain the victory. When you kids left, the irritant just went away. Because there was no one around to upset me, I had no one to lose my temper with or to yell at, so I thought I had gained the victory."

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That was a good lesson for me, too.

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"The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?"

Because of my sinful nature, I'll always have to be on guard, or the devil will catch me when I least expect it.

.Sanita Booth

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Do you have control over your anger, or are you one, who is easily angered, just like me?