Anger!

Now there is a word the manner of which that summarizes a lot in today's world. Anger that is festered about in the ruminations of ones family, anger that is focused upon political agendas, anger that was centered at ones own emotional responses to a state of being that only furthers more anger and ever lesser amounts of good will. The construct in itself hardly needs to be displayed in definition, for everyone has a good idea of the means, and even some to the cause. Ever fewer however seem to be connecting to the diminishment of this emotional state of being, instead opting for the viral state of energy that comes right along with it. If left unchecked, this particular responsive edict to the prism of humankind's wantonness can easily signal its eventual segregated demise, and as we all know, throughout many periods of the collective past of humankind, it has resulted in just that, a final demise.

One of the great questions about this state of being, this state of anger is, does it carry any spiritually effective qualities to it, or does it simply remain that it is the quantum opposite of a blissful state of life? All of the implied meaning to any of this is resolved in the minds and along with the souls of those who depict their individual perceptions of a state of anger in all of their lives. Sometimes a state of anger brings about fantastic and purposeful changes that carry along with them the creative energies that result in insurmountable achievements of word and script, of building and of cast cathedral, of nation and of shire. Anger has shifted about the very shadows of the histories ancient religious sects and affiliations; it has brought about nationalistic tendencies that crafted many an altered national border and even ruminated a rebellion or two that formed some to be great super power in the world. It has also resulted in the depraved demise for millions of people, not to mention the ills it has wrought on so many an individual's aims in life and to the fortitudes of the ever present family existence.

In today's common day world we have witnessed this usual fare of both a riotous as well as many an individual expression of anger, for it is usually the first, the last and most of the impeding mid-ranged stories that are carried on most major news broadcaster's video screens. The usual quoted excuse is that anger sells, riot sells, individual and national revolution of the spirit sells news time, where the boring aspects of any construct of spiritual harmony of the soulful quality of anything sells little time if any at all. This is probably why those pleasant and happy news pieces get one shot out of a complete hour of time on any cable broadcast with the rest relegated to what is understood to be as "the way it is", instead of understanding that this is not the way it always was! Rest in peace Walter Cronkite, many could have learned much more from you.

The greatest of considerations in this authors mind in this common day age with regard to anger is in this thought; to what extent will society allow itself to travel down that angry path and across that threshold of an angry existence, without setting something of the soulful or the spiritual quality of life to begin to take over instead of always just the anger?

We have as a world acknowledged such vast and spiritually destructive periods of anger in the past at various points in time throughout history, the Reformation, the French Revolution, the American Revolution and the American Civil War, the Bombing of Pearl Harbor, the Vietnam War, the scandal of Watergate and on to name only a few. If chapter and verse were let loose to the details of history, surely multiple books could be dedicated to the subject of angers resulting effects on the full body of humankind not to mention what its effects are on the single perseverance of the individual soul. I'll leave all of that abstract detail to the individual abstract mind that reads this piece. As intimated earlier, it is hardly a new theme and will not abstain from the character of humankind any time in the near future. It might just wane a bit though.

Some of the finer visions of the character of spirituality in the world become rather lost in the heat of many a moment that garners more attractiveness to peoples adrenal glands than does the quality of a sense of inner peace. It resists the deeper attractiveness that any blissful spiritual existence might contain, for most unfortunately still do absorb the odd-attractiveness and the almost addictive quality that the tensions, the anxieties and the heightened energy that a state of anger promises. It reminds people that they have some responsive control over what else is understood as a world virtually out of control. Anger is a drug to the soulfully spiritual self. It is a maintaining rod of discipline that causes an abstinence of a spiritual quality of life for some time, only to give way once the individual or even an entire nation comes to realize that existence has become rather insane for a time. Such a state of awareness usually comes too late however, for most come to this conclusion after a fashion, and once they come to realize that all to much water has fallen over the bridge of awareness and the only way out is some penitence of some type, whether to ones fellows, to ones family or to ones God. The act of a spiritually penitent person, however one defines such a spiritual state of being, typically comes along after the awareness has long since taken root and only now begins to flower into the sunshine of the awareness. In virtually every case from the French Revolution to the latter days of today's viral moods of anger, the mourning over another way of being that might have been always seems to come after the deed has been done and long after others have been hurt.

Spirituality takes a backseat until its awareness has dawned upon the brow, once that brow has been beaten in some way, spiritually or otherwise.

This all leads to the lasting awareness that is amongst the grandest of considerations of today's societies. Does this state of fuming and viral anger lead to a demise in the state of peoples virtues if not in a societal sense altogether? Do a presentation and the furthering of a sense of viral anger bring about changes in peoples lifestyles and of their own plans for their futures, whether acted upon or not as a means of their own recognition of it or not? Does the quality of anger have both positive and negative effects on peoples own self-creation of all of their individual moments of life?

At least to the last of these considerations, the reality is, and I'd be willing to wager that most would agree that the answer is a resounding yes. Anger, as with any other emotion that is contained in the experience of existence in this universe, carries with it great creative effects as much as all the other emotions. How people relegate their feelings and the actions that follow their feelings is of course dependent upon each persons own responsibility to their own existence. Whether or not someone allows themselves to be drawn into a current of viral anger or not isn't as dependent upon some unconscious blindness as might be thought by some of the more construct sociologists and of the more thoughtful psychologists. The individual remains the sole arbiter of what they do, to where they focus their creative energies and to how they allow themselves to act out in his or her life. Whether any quality of anger either grows into a state of some social insanity or becomes diminished into a state of ridiculousness and humor by those who understand it to be precisely what it is and always will remain, is also dependent upon the individuals own perception to conclude and to either act upon or not to act upon.

How the individual moves forward with his or her own bit of awareness leading their way or being locked away into some trunk of despair is also his or her own choice.

Anger doesn't relegate itself into action or demise, only the person does that.

Anger doesn't fester into some growing sense of rage, only the individual decides upon that.

Anger doesn't always result in a quality furthering of the finer fabric of a soulful being for the larger part of humankind, only the individual decides to become a part of that finer fabric, or to make remiss the want for such after the fact.

Anger doesn't rule the mind, or the soul, the soulfully spiritual part of what "IS" the self decides upon all of that.

Where do you stand on all of this?

As Always,

WD