Don't by Ann Wood

Do not be mad. Everything passes and leaves, and is forgotten. And there are so many scarier things!
I'm not angry about anything!
I don't get angry when it rains and I don't have an umbrella!
I don't get mad when I miss the bus because I know there's another one coming!
I don't get angry when something breaks because everything is fixable except human life, and there are no irreplaceable things unlike the people we lose, there are only maybe newer and better ones!
I don't get angry when I meet bad people - maybe they have a good reason to be the way they are at the moment I meet them, and in fact they are wonderful people to those close to them and true friends to someone who needs them !
I don't get angry about things that are beyond my control!
I'm not angry that I can't change the world around me, because maybe it's not him that needs changing, but the way I look at him! Then I have to change something in myself first!
And I changed - I'm not angry about anything!
Life is too short to live it angry!



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Written on 2023-10-21 at 12:27

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Marie Cadavieco The PoetBay support member heart!
What a lovely philosophy of life. We could all benefit from living by these ideals.
I am also trying to be less angry or frustrated. I ask myself, how important is this, in comparison with life, the Universe, and everything? And by the time I gave thought about it, my anger has gone.
A very profound piece of writing.
Mariexxxxx
2023-10-24