Daily Mood Quotes
Day 173 – October 24, 2011
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
~Buddha
What an honest mouth full this quote is. I know so many who hold on to anger with the intent of hurting people. Not necessarily physically, but verbally, mentally and emotionally. What's that saying, Oh yeah, “sticks and stones may break my bones, but words last a lifetime.” and if you say words out of anger at age 20, and live to be 90, you have to live with what you said; while the person who you hurt, forgave you and moved on with their life. You, well seventy years is a long time to let anger fester and carry a grudge. Is it worth it?
What if everyone lived in a world where hatred was the norm. We hate people we don't know, for no reason but that they are there. We spread lies about people because its easier than to take the time to get to know them. And (one I will never understand) we create a convenient truth, so the story we tell sounds plausible. Who has the time or the energy to live life like this?
Why is it the people we care about the most are the ones who feel they have the right to keep secrets, tell lies and hurt the ones they claim to love? More importantly, why does it become the center of attention as if it is the be-all, end-all. Family, can't live with them and you can't really escape them. In the movie Secrets and Lies, Maurice (played by Timothy Spall) said, “Secrets and lies! We're all in pain! Why can't we share our pain? I've spent my entire life trying to make people happy, and the three people I love the most in the world hate each other's guts, and I'm in the middle! I can't take it anymore!” The saddest part of all of this is that someone is always caught in the middle. Maurice also said, “Life isn't fair then is it. Somebody always draws the short straw.” I guess that's true too, someone always does draw the short straw. Usually its that person in the middle.
When we hate and carry anger toward someone, they often are the last ones to even know it, but the ones we love and depend on know it, feel it and suffer for it. In that way, no matter the final outcome, the person who carries the hate looses, because they all too often break the hearts and spirits of those they love the most, with the weight of the hate. I say, better to cut loose of the hate and unburden those we love from its weight. Drop the hate and loose its weight. And hey, who doesn't want to loose some extra weight?
How will you drop the hate today?
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