Pigs and Bricks

It takes a lot for me to get angry or upset at something or someone.
Some people don’t understand when I tell them this.
I like to think of anger and other emotions as sort of a drug.
In that they cloud your mind making you unable to think clearly and make rational decisions for yourself.
Accordingly, when people anger you, you’re essentially allowing them to conquer you and have control over your feelings and emotions.
And that is something that I am simply unwilling to allow.
Think back to The Three Little Pigs story that we all heard as little kids.
The big bad wolf blows down the first two pigs’ houses which were made out of straw and sticks.
However, the wolf is unable to blow down the third pig’s house no matter how hard he blew because the house was made out of bricks.
There’s a lot of toxicity that we encounter in our everyday lives which has the ability to alter our feelings for the worse.
But we also have the ability to control our emotions so the toxicity doesn’t affect us.
I understand that controlling emotions doesn’t happen overnight.
It takes a lifetime to understand ourselves and what makes us tick.
Rome wasn’t built in a day.
