I so badly want to be able to do it. To not be angry.
Do not maintain anger or hatred. As soon as anger and hatred arise, practice the meditation on compassion in order to deeply understand the persons who have caused anger and hatred. Learn to look at other beings with the eyes of compassion.
Thich Nhat Hahn
But then comes a day like yesterday (which is continuing this morning) and crap, anger seems too mild to describe how I’m feeling.
And no, this is nothing in the online world, this is in the real world, where my child has done something incredibly stupid but also scary and we are now back in the mode of reacting and doubting our parenting. I’ll know more today about the whole Permanent Record part, but for now I’m just so mad I can’t see straight.
(my apologies to anyone coming by today and hoping for a joke or a comic or whatever. Maybe later)
Oh, yeah, and according to this prophetic blog, today does indeed suck.
