Anger Myths

We all probably know a thing or two about anger just from experiencing it ourselves, but we have to ask ourselves if our concepts are fact or crap. To me, the most interesting myth about anger and conflict that we talked about in class was "anger is caused by others." It surprised me because how often do we hear people saying, "Ugh! You make me so mad sometimes!"? A lot. In fact, just last night I heard my roommate's boyfriend tell her those exact words and naturally I had to chuckle. We are all blinded by anger sometimes, so much that it makes us blurt out this kind of nonsense. The fact is anger is a feeling. Sure there might be things a person does to upset you, but you are the only person in control of your attitude. This concept will serve as a good reminder for me the next time something happens to invoke my own feelings of anger.