Everyone gets angry once in a while and it is a normal emotion to have. It is useless to say that you can become a person who is never angry. This is because it is impossible to never become angry.

However, it is possible to control your anger. Controlling your anger is a sign of maturity and self-discipline.

We need to remember that anger is just a letter away from becoming danger. This is true because anger is dangerous for ourselves and everyone around us. Anger makes us lose our ability to think and understand. Words that we shouldn’t say, come out of our mouth and the other person gets hurt because of these words. Due to anger, we make hasty, regretful decisions.

Anger is like a drug, which makes us lose our moral consciousness. It is like a fire that burns our relationships to ashes. This is because in anger, we hurt the another person’s feelings. Perhaps the relationship doesn’t get completely destroyed, but it doesn’t remain the same either. Our anger can break someone’s heart and a simple “Sorry” can’t repair it immediately.

Anger also gives birth to ego. Ego makes someone consider themselves perfect and superior. People with ego think that they are always correct and do not even try to understand the perspective of the other person. Anger does not solve any problem; it only worsens it. Many illnesses are also caused by excessive anger, such as high blood pressure, ulcers and heart attack. We have a very short life, so there is no point in fighting with and hurting each other, and ruining our own health because of anger. We only have one life and we should live it happily.

If you have patience in a minute of anger, you will be able to escape a week of sorrow. This is because when a person’s anger cools down, they may realise their mistake and that they may have overreacted to the situation. We should realise that no one in the world is perfect and that we all make mistakes. So, we should not become angry at the little mistakes of others. If we get angry about everything all the time, people will stop taking our anger seriously.

Here is a short anecdote about controlling anger. Once a man went to a doctor for help. The doctor asked him about his problem and the patient said he gets angry a lot, and now his wife has left him and his kids hardly talk to him.

After listening to this, the doctor gave him some medicine and told him to take it for the next ten days. He told the man to take two drops of it in his mouth whenever he gets angry and that he should not speak anything for the next 20 minutes after taking it.

After ten days, the man went back to the doctor very happily and thanked him for solving his issue. The man asked the doctor about the medicine he gave him. The doctor disclosed that he only gave the man some water.

The doctor explained, “The only cure for anger is to control the urge to let it out, and your anger will always cool down sooner or later. And you will avoid making everyone upset.”

So, friends, you should always use this technique to control your anger. Try to remember the good aspects of the person you are angry at, so that your anger cools down. From today, you should apply these techniques to control your anger because anger is just one letter away from danger.

Published in Dawn, Young World, December 31st, 2022