Surrounded by Anger - Lisbon Ferrao

The ones who hunger does not want to listen to words of wisdom.

Just as the ones who wage war listen to no peace….

Anger an emotion, so strong in its nature to destroy; it consumes everything in its path. I have seen the meek being bathed by Fear by its sheer presence. Anger; a horrid moment of spur is met with an objectionable response. However, it is still one of the many feelings we feel every day.

Anger is like fire it consumes everything in its path and will only stop when everything is destroyed.

Anger, an emotion never changes and it characteristic remains the same throughout the ages, a feeling of love or affection 100 years ago is the same now, it neither grows old now does it evolve.

So if emotions are the same then all of us should react the same way in every situation, right? Wrong. Every day we are bombarded with hundreds of emotions, lust, greed, love, irritation and our logical thinking tells us how to react to all these feelings.

Even though we feel the same emotions, how we react to these emotions is based on how we grew up with them. Someone raised in an environment of compassion, will spread compassion or at least most of them would.

They say the world is getting closer, they say we will all be one, one day. But then why is there so much killing now than ever before?

If we live in a surrounding of compassion and spread compassion then living in a surrounding of anger will spread anger. I see the world around me and the read about the countries beyond the boundaries of my own. I don’t see the spread of compassion from the boundaries of Asia, Gulf, Africa and reaching the European continent.

If we talk about fighting for justice and the war is waged against the axis of terror or it’s a holy war as claimed by religious fanatics. Why would someone have so much of anger for one another or to another religion or toward a country, as to hate them so much that even if hundreds or thousands of people die, they still won’t stop?

We must put a stop to this antagonism and one way of doing it, is to control ourselves. We must spread compassion like a disease that will one day infect people’s rage.

There is a famous Chinese proverb “Never write a letter while you are angry.” written words can never be erased just as our actions can never be undone.

Hateful action toward other people is like stabbing someone with a dagger. The wounds may heal but the scars will always remain.

You will be buried under a pile of stones, if you collect every hurtful thing people say to you. Use these stones carefully by building a wall, one day you will have a house to live in. - Lisbon