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Why do people succumb to anger?


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It feels so easy to slip into its grasp. But at the same time, from a distance, it looks quite stupid. Aren't we overreacting? What's the point of hitting one another, yelling at one another, going to war with one another? Yet when are up close, immersed in anger, we feel nothing but blissful rage, if that makes sense. Sweet revenge empowers us. Makes us feel as if we are at the top of the world. Maybe it is a survival mechanism. But I sure wish it weren't.
Livres

i am raskolnikov
deckard
heck, even mason.
it scares me;
we have so much in common.
almost like what i read shapes who i am...
slowly,
but surely,
i morph into a
plain jane
a rochester
maybe even a st. john.
good grief,
literature tells me more about myself
than i could have ever imagined.
but how do i know that's not those authors
getting into my head?
perhaps it is time for me
to take
the voigt-kampf test.
i clearly am too empathetic...