Animosity

Hello readers

Hope you all are doing well.

Holding on to anger is like drinking poison and expecting other person to die!

-Gautama Buddha

The beauty of life is we never realize the suffering which happens to a fellow right next to you and will not realize it may happen to you the next day, because for the simple reason your ego won’t let you go, and always keeps you pumped up and you would be in a delusion, until one day the reality unveils.

Let’s talk about weaknesses today, all creatures on this earth have some weaknesses actually it is programmed like that otherwise the whole world would be a chaos is what I can imagine.

For instance if look at an ant it has an excellent signaling system which is regarded as the best communication in the world  through its antennas and pheromones, but still the ant is very weak, just a stamp from bigger creatures leg would kill it.

Similarly the elephant is a gigantic animal with great strength and ability but still we the humans from ages have tamed this animal and are using it in war and for work.

So the point here is every creature in this world has both a ability and a weakness, humans have emotions, our vocal skills and the power to think which we think is the highest form of evolution.

But definitely we do have our own weaknesses; I want to discuss about one such weakness today, which is anger.

We have been fuming with people and with ourselves from time to time let us understand what makes us feel agitated.

In our brain the temporal lobe, the frontal lobe and also the parietal lobe involves functions which help in language and deciding what to speak.

The frontal lobe has a function of shaping personality and mood, and this is the one which triggers anger or laughter.

Let us take a simple situation you are in a workplace trying to work and your colleague has logged in along with you are  busy with your work, after sometime a 3^rd colleague logs in he is a chatterbox  and won’t stop blabbering  and start working, initially you like to talk only for some time, after that you continue working. But this person won’t stop and  he continues to speak.

That is the moment your frontal lobe starts getting annoyed and your mood will turn from green, to amber and finally red.

Why does this happen? Very simple it works on the newton’s third law of motion every action has an equal and opposite reaction, here the motion is of brain waves stress hormones, reached high-level to the incoming irrelevant information and produces nerve impulses and hormones which make you feel annoyed.

When you were working without disturbance you were concentrating on a single task, but then your peer started the process of distraction and you fell for it, initially enjoying it but later your concentration level on the job lowered and there is also a possibility you did not like something which he told.

Finally you ended up telling him to either mind his own business or stop talking both of you had a red faced day.

This is where annoyance management comes into picture, great saints like Vivekananda, Ramakrishna and Buddha were known to be as strong as a boulder to people who used to provoke them, and I think we need to keep such personalities as examples.

Anger is a dangerous emotion it blacks out your consciousness and you will not be aware of what you do if what you said at that time which may hurt some people you end up feeling a gripe for yourself and may be reacted in the same way when you are with your family for no fault of them. Always remember anger quickly spreads.

Let’s wash off all the anger from our body, keep calm always like it says in the series of keep calm cards.

When you see annoying people around the best thing is to switch of your mind towards them and concentrate on what you are doing.

Try to stay less emotional in life then you would see a more balanced part of yourself. Stop taking personal jokes too seriously and do not create personal grudge on anyone in any walk of your life because it does not take you anywhere.

Laughter is the best medicine is what I feel.

Thanks a lot for your time.