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Hey everyone!
Hope it's been going swell for you guys and gals,
My life has been going alright... until the minute I lost my temper and shouted at a dear friend of mine. I can be quite grumpy, especially with loved ones who I doesn't mind my spectrum of emotions.
But being grumpy/irritated/annoyed is just a mild version of anger. Wrath. Fury. Whatever it is you wanna call it, I have lots of it and quit proudly I'd admit that I've have kept it inside me from family and friends and I have not let my anger consume my immediate actions for a long time. At most I would write an angry sms or an email expressing my hurt towards someone.
But yesterday... after so many years of being in control of my anger, I had let it get to me and to the point where I was insensitive, rude, sarcastic and the final point was where my dear friend of 4 years said my behavior was scaring her. She decided I wasn't in the right state to listen to anything she had to say so she walked away.
That's when I did something that didn't even process consciously in my brain but just came out as an action. I shouted after her... on a quiet night, in her neighborhood where her family and relatives stayed. I shouted, 'Thank you (her name)!!'.
If you're still reading to this point, you probably are thinking what's the big deal? You have to understand I'm not someone who shouts at my friends and even my closest family members have not seen my temper in half a decade. So when I did, it caught me off-guard and honestly, dear reader... I'm scared of what I'm becoming...
I ask myself questions like 'Is this the real me?', 'Have I hid it so well from the people around me that I now believe it's the lie?'
I am not a bad person. I'm as selfish as the next person and I know I will not hurt my friends willingly.
I blame myself entirely for over-reacting that night and losing my temper. But she too had a part to play in this scenario. To cut it short: the attitude she had on that day was slowly but steadily testing my patience. But it's not her fault. I hold myself responsible for my own actions.
But everyone has a chance to learn from their mistakes, don't they? But what if I don't? What if my poor memory has lead me to treat my friend without respect over and over again? I am my actions and my actions yesterday night has made me ashamed of myself and even though my friend isn't talking to me right now, I feel like I don't deserve her friendship and love ever again.
If anger can be considered as the passion one has for life; a formidable energy source to keep the spirit going ahead in life, then maybe... my anger can be justified. Maybe. How the justification is explained is a whole 'nother story.
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Devious Comments
But I think that you will learn from your experience, I really do.
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I am..... an arteest.
Can I have some syrup with that rofl?
As for me learning from this experience? I really hope I learn to be a better person,
But I know I'm not an evil person of any sorts,
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design brings food to the table; art feeds the soul
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I am..... an arteest.
Can I have some syrup with that rofl?
I am sure it's not your friend's fault, it just was the cherry on top. And this situation probably made you aware that things have built up too much. But you gotta find the root of your anger and deal with it before it gets worse. If it's the same things that annoys you over and over again, figure out why?
Don't be afraid to be honest with yourself.
Hope you'll be able to patch things up with your friend.
Praying for you
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design brings food to the table; art feeds the soul
You might be right about the bottled up frustrations that are now leaking out without my control. I don't think I can do this alone. I'm actually seriously considering seeing a psychiatrist. These people should know how to help me deal with the issues... right? lol No idea.
I'm really looking to god for help and I think he's guiding me... so what the hey, we'll see what happens,
I thank you for your prayers, max
You are really quite something,
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design brings food to the table; art feeds the soul
Can I share with you something from what happened in my life lately? It's long so bear with me
I know for me, lately I have been frustrated with my life as well and have been having a hot temper. Mostly due to not having a job, my parents having silence wars with each other (those are the worst, I wish they yelled and let everything out already, instead of making the house a tomb), most of my friends being gone after graduation due to jobs and the fact that they live far, turning 26 (not having much accomplished till this age does put a dent in my mood, and at that point my bachelors degree didn't even pop into my head), not really knowing what kind of career I really wanted to do.
Well all this brought me to the worst point three days ago.
I had realized that I was bored with life, unmotivated to do anything, lonely and without passion for anything really, no big dreams either, no more "when I want to grow up I wanna be ...". I was already grown up and frozen. I didn't know what next step to take, my whole life was at a stand still. Emotionally and professionally.
I was so low that I was thinking "this is how suicidal people must feel like" and if I wasn't a child of God (Christian), saved by Jesus' grace alone, I would not have stopped. I was at the point in my life where I realized that there was no point to life, I just totally didn't know what to do with myself, I was literally laying on my bed and was numb. And then God through His grace and through His Spirit made me realize that there is no point to life Without HIM. Life sucks, is boring, painful, unmotivating, and fleeting without Him. He is my purpose. Worshiping, serving, loving Him IS my purpose.
Only through Him can I see beauty in life, and joy and peace. Only through Him can this world make sense. Only by putting my life in His hand and fully trusting Him can I go on knowing that He has it all planed out for me. A job, friends, purpose in life. As long as I trust Him I am not bored anymore. I am not annoyed anymore. I am not anxious and nervous about my future anymore. I am not saying all is peachy and nothing will go wrong anymore. What I am saying is that He is the reason I keep living. He made me curious. Why am I still alive? Just remembering all those times when I was so close to being in a car accident and His hand totally protected me. I want to find out why. I want to know His plan I want to live long enough to see His grace and glory fully displayed in my life.
And so I truly pray that He will heal you. Because I am 100% convinced that He loves you so much. He showed me that He loves me too, so many times and I felt so useless and unworthy of His love, and yet He still does. Day by day. He is so faithful even when I push Him away and I doubt He is even listening. But He is there. He is close to you as well. He made it clear that we don't have to be complete, know everything, be accomplished to call on Him. It is through our brokenness that He makes us complete.
And no matter what you are going through Mohamad, coz I don't know what you are going through, only He knows.
He knows and is waiting for you to give up your burden to Him.
May God's grace be with you
Dorothea
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I am..... an arteest.
Can I have some syrup with that rofl?
As I was reading your story, I could easily relate to that moment where nothing is worth it. Everyone goes through insecure moments. Inadequacies in life is really very normal. But when every possibly negative feeling one has about oneself, about life and in general, just about how to end all the unnecessary pain... that's when your heart feels the heaviest and your thoughts center around the most horrid of feelings.
I made myself a promised a long time ago. That I will never be the direct cause of my immediate death. Suicide is really an act that's disgusting and very cowardly in my book. Sometimes I like to think that it's only because of that promise I made so many years ago that I'm still alive today.
I'm not a religious person. I don't think religion is worth all the fanaticism that it attracts. But I never stopped believing in god. The older I got, the easier it got for me to feel his presence. No matter how much farther I got from my Islamic obligations, I never once thought that he didn't exist. And this year has been a very trying one for me emotionally and I realized that only person who never let me down was god. And that's something that will never change. He makes it easier for us to get through our day and indeed our lives,
And please, call me Hanif,
May God guide all of us to salvation from our worldly desires and towards our true purposes on this world.
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design brings food to the table; art feeds the soul
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