Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Getting Angry Can Be a Good

I read an article called Getting Angry Can Be a Good Thing. The article is about a lady who finds a job in the immigrant rights movement. Her motivation behind it all is anger. Her friend told her that if the United States has a war with Latin America that he believes her parents should be placed in an interment camp just like the Japanese-Americans during World War II. This got her very angry, she feels as though her family is as American as anyone else who was born in the United States.
She says that her anger carves in her soul. But it hasn't eaten away at her completely. She has other things that has kept the anger from completely taking over. Those things are stuff like compassion, faith, family, music, the goodness of people around that are around. She says these things fill her up and temper her outrage with a deep sense of gratitude that she has the privilege of doing her small part to make things better.
I don't think my anger would do something as good as hers did. Mines would most likely cause a lot of problems and end up in a lot violence. She can control hers and also do something good with her anger. I think what she is doing is very good, she is using something that usually creates bad situations and she is using that to be her motivation to do something good. If more people were like her, the world might just be a better place.

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