Anger is a word that often inspires a squirming reaction, as if being angry is like being a racist or a realtor or something really bad like a traffic enforcement officer. But anger doesn’t have to mean kicking your laptop off the roof, I mean it can mean that, it often does, that’s why people think it’s a bad thing.
Sometimes the pressure of life can build up, everything is all about time these days, so much so the stories about old men who retire from busy jobs and turn their alarm clocks off forever, sleeping as long as they want, almost seem to be fantastic fables, if it weren’t for them so frequently getting up at 6 am anyway because they’ve been conditioned to do so for fifty years and have a bladder the size of a walnut.
When pushed and pushed everything can just go up like a postal worker with a surprise sack of lead lined mail and access to automatic weapons – most people have blown up at least once in their lifetimes and you know from a distance it can look kind of fun – good luck Mr. Michael Douglas! But venting in an uncontrolled way isn’t fun – it’s loss of a critical faculty – the faculty to not pull DMV personnel over the plastic counters and whisper into their jowls sure I’m going to jail, but you’ll be dead.
If you’re an angry person there’s a chance it’s only temporary – maybe it’s the time of your life, maybe you get angry because of something that happened, and sure maybe the healthy thing to do is work it out over years and years of costly therapy that maybe just ends up being an elastoplasts on an anal fissure; often angry people just aren’t ready to not be angry. So utilise it.
Start doing what you want to show them, never be complacent with a shitty job, always be angry at yourself for not performing right and at those around you for the same, wake up, chew on nails, say to yourself ‘I am going to carve my name on this planet, even if I have to use my own bloody spleen’ and never surrender to the mundanity of docility!
With clips from Falling Down, Alpha Dog, Anger Management, Taxi, The Vampire's Kiss, Downfall, Scarface, The Shining, Network, The Deer Hunter, The Hulk, Burn After Reading, and Raging Bull.
