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Anger is, most often, generated

by the assumption that you know best

and more about what matters than others,

combined with the subconscious assurance

that, because you are so enlightened,

the world spins at your command.

Think about it. Once you understand

that it's barely possible to fully know

the why and when of your own self,

and fairly impossible to walk in others' shoes;

once you see that your little mass

in the universal scheme and

your tiny dot on the continuum of time

are quite insignificant in the story of creation,

anger becomes a luxury that reality cannot afford.

© 2013 Todd Jenkins