What would you do if you woke up half sleepy and on your way to the work someone made a driving mistake in front of you and was so close to hitting you? What would you do if early in the morning someone had sworn you? What would you do if you returned tired from work and someone bothered you? Every day in the morning, at noon, or at night, many things would get on our nerves and make us angry. How do we react when such things happen?
Simply, you would get angry but your reaction would be shouting and swearing the other. This reaction would leave you with a bad mood and bad impression of the day causing you to have a bad day. That’s what usually happens with most of us. Some of us won’t shout but just be angry and silent spending the rest of the day with anger. If someone was bothering you badly, maybe your anger would include hitting and swearing.
Those people behave in that way because they are filled up with stress and anger. It is a way in which they calm a little and relief their anger. They are like a garbage truck that is moving on the street and filling up garbage. When it is full the garbage doesn’t fall, but when the garbage exceeds its limit, trash will be all over the streets. That’s why I called those people a garbage truck. Things happen with them every day when anger fills them up. When something more happens, their anger explodes. When we behave like others in that way, we are just like them.
Have you ever thought why this is always your reaction? Have you ever tried to change your reaction?
Since anger ruins us and our day, why don’t you just say thank you for the person who caused you to be angry. If it happened when you were driving and the other driver yelled at you, just look at him and tell him thanks. This is a way in which you will stay calm and you will keep thinking positive about your day since deep in you know that thanking someone is something positive. If someone swore you, ask God to forgive him instead of replying to him and answer him with thank you and he will feel that what he is doing is totally wrong. When someone bothers you, treat him in a very nice way and they will be sorry about what they did.
One last sentence, stay positive, calm and peaceful and never be a garbage truck.
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