don't be angry...

Why is it so hard for you to realize that you choose to be angry? that it's your choice whether you yell at people around you, spewing your vitriolic acidity... burning through the love and joy you could be sharing? when will you start choosing to elongate the space between stimulus and response... and choose to change your automatic reactions to compassion and empathy? and also that you have no right to shout, to yell, to swear and accuse, to recite tirades... that if you continue to choose anger and pain in your heart, that's not about me and I won't let it be my problem. You deserve better. I wish you would see that. That as long as you continue to allow yourself to be cruel to those who love you, you put walls up. You imprison the friendships, you prevent them from ever being able to develop and grow. You imprison yourself when people stop letting you into their lives and they stop being able to support you.