I am upset. At this moment, as I sit here typing this up, I am truly upset. Something happened a little while ago. I got into an argument and I am now reaping the results of that. Its a true bounty of results, I can tell you. Lets seeanger, frustration, shame, disgustthen more anger and guilt at the fact that I have allowed myself to get angry and frustrated. All of this is confusing. Its a form of madness (no offence intended). I think whats worse is that it is quite normal for most people.
So, as I sit here and stew, let us see if we can work this all out. Where does all this negative emotion come from? Well, obviously from the thing that was said to me. The person I had the conversation with spoke words. These words were taken by my mind, analysed, and a proper reaction was produced based on the result of the analysis. No matter how deep we go into human psychology and the workings of the mind; that really is the simple description of what happened. Thats all we need to concern ourselves with. We can keep it simple, and then try a simple approach to addressing the problem.
The problem is whatever the person said. WordsJust words. How can words have such a...