Raging into oblivion

The rage that we hold within us feels like a justified protest or demand for justice or fairness from those around us.

But rage is a master of distraction.

It is born in moments of legitimate duress, but continues long after.

The rage of being unheard in one moment leads to harshness when we feel misunderstood in a totally different moment.

Rage is the intensity of our demand to be treated with significance or respect, while not realising that rage undermines both, our significance and the respect we need from others.

Rage only ever achieves compliance from others while they may fear us in our moments of rage.

The moment those around us no longer fear us, rage becomes a tool that destroys what we’re trying to achieve, and isolates us from the ones who we wish would see us more clearly.

But we only rage because we don’t see ourselves clearly.

And that’s the greatest distraction that rage offers us.

It convinces us that we’re right and that everything that we see is wrong with others is good reason for us to rage.

And in those moments, we lose our connection with reality and replace it with a focus on who is taking our pain seriously while not realising that we’re causing pain, leaving them to see nothing more than a brute rather than a hurt soul.

Beyond the release of the anguish we hold within, rage offers no value at all in securing the peace or harmony that we want with those who matter to us.

Don’t only try to restrain your rage.

Instead, seek to understand why you feel that rage at all.

Otherwise your rage will grow to define you while you may think it’s defining your battle cry to the world.

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