Anger/Peace of Mind

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everyone always says that you should be happy, that you should never be angry, and that you should be kind, happy. Everyone always says that you when mad you should count to a hundred, take a few deep breaths, get a diary, eat some ice cream and to calm down, after these exercises you should be rather happy, controlled. And yes, in some instances, for many people this can be the perfect remedy, and after ten minutes and a few servings of tasty Rocky Road you may not even remember the source of your unhappiness… But what are you supposed to do if you are truly, very, unchangeably angry? What if the whole happy person act doesn’t work, and if you could eat a gallon of ice cream and not even feel a bit better, but actually worse? Are you supposed to smile, to pretend its all alright? Well, I cant. Maybe I’m just too cruel, and maybe I cannot and will never be able to just forgive and forget… But it is who I am, and how am I to change? In these moments the only thing that calms me down is the understanding that for every minute you are angry you are taking a minute of happiness away from yourself. And no one deserves to be sad, or mad, but instead they should be full of happiness, of contentment.

So at the end of the day the choice comes down to this: peace/ anger. What we decide is totally up for us.

Burger King Blues

Everyone acts as I eating meat is so strange, such a hard concept to understand, such a hard idea to accommodate. It sucks, and its not fair for us who have chosen to live this way.

Just today, I had to experience this. I went to Burger King, just trying to get a salad and subbing the Morningstar “Meat” for regular chicken. I placed my order, and the cashier quickly told me that this was not going to be able to happen.

Seriously? Maybe I’m a bit too angry, but its not fair that while every other person gets to sub and change their order for their likes us vegetarians cannot make anything diffrent. We are kept with baerly one menu option that is considered vegetarian, and even that cannot change.

I seriously don’t think that my “change” was such a big deal, I was even willing to pay extra for my change. But I guess that I was truly just being much too hopefull.

Truthfully I am more sad than angry, its depressive to realize that the world will never understand, accept, or change for the beliefs of others. Not everyone is the same, don’t they get that?

I guess not. So here I am, waiting for a change. Maybe.