Husband your anger!!!

 

 

Anger in any culture is said to be an emotion that should be hidden under the kitchen pot.  In fact it is blamed for many things that go wrong. In a fit of anger, many people permit themselves to be prisoner to its vile ways; thereby committing acts that would make their parents tremble with rage.

 Is anger really that bad? Is it an emotion that we can all do without? Gather it by its belt and toss it into the lake? Hang it on a tomato tree and speak evil of its children? Is anger that vile?

I am going to bet my last Ugandan shilling and say that this world would be purposeless without anger. In my view, anger provides that stomach churning excitement that drives men to their very best. It is the sculptor's chisel that fashions character from the rock of life.

I am not talking about that blood curdling anger or that reason sapping anger or that mindless, temper tantrum anger or that which turns a reasonable man into an incorrigible lunatic or that anger that reduced Okonkwo into a suicidal fool.

I am not talking about that Othello anger that coagulates into a jealous fit and melts into a murderous rage or that ambitious anger that caused Lady Macbeth to sow seeds of tyranny into her husband's gullible mind.

I am talking about that anger that boils into a calculated rage; that which crystallizes a murky situation; that which causes you to fashion an idea and husband all your energy into the production of a better existence.

The anger that causes a single man of age to rethink and retool his life is one that must be applauded. If it causes him to find, keep and love the lady of his dreams, it must be embraced. Such an anger should be ingrained in the instructional system of any society for it is the only way that the society will ensure that it is made up of loving families.

In this day and age, somebody should come up with an evolutionary application that enables the living to speak to those who have travelled to the other side. I would love to engage with Steve Jobs, Walt Disney, Henry Ford, the Wright Brothers, The Beatles, and Albert Einstein et al.

I would love to know how they handled rejection from a society that was not used to ideas that run contrary to its thinking. I would love to appreciate how they channeled all that negative energy: how they marshalled that river of negativity into a dam of creativity that continues to amaze and astound the world.

 I am yet to find an omelet made without destroying the egg. So is it with a life changing process. In order to build, one must destroy. If one is to jump out of complacency, one must be ready, willing and able to say that enough is enough!!!

Anger at ones current existence, provides that much needed bridge to better circumstances. Satisfaction, at any stage in life, causes human beings to stagnate, regress and rot. Anger, on the other hand, brings that much needed freshness that rejuvenates as it reinvigorates.

 It is Howard Thurman who said, " Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive"  

You cannot come alive when you are simply dancing to the dictates of life. At best you will be dull, uninspiring and unattractive. At worst you will live a forgetful existence.

Anger is the ingredient to an exciting, adventurous, creative and a life well lived. It is the spark of fire that ignites and sets society aflame with wonder. It harnesses the molehill of skill in every living human being and turns it into a mountain of awe.

 

In every seed of anger

Lies a tree of greatness

Harness it

Nourish it

Husband it.