“Anger blows out the lamp of the mind,” Robert Ingersoll.
Just before the lockdown I was at a police station trying to keep a son of a friend of mine out of jail. The boy had been driving his dad’s car when he was hit by a school bus. He got out of his car, went over to the bus, pulled the driver out and thrashed him. The cops arrested him. All because he couldn’t control his temper.
A man read, in the wanted ads, of a sports car for sale. It had only 3,000 miles. “Like new,” the ad boasted. “Mint condition. $75.00.”
He laughed to himself, and he said, “There goes the newspaper, making another mistake.” But he decided to call the number anyway and he asked the woman who answered about the car, “Is it really brand new?”
“Yes,” she replied.
“Lady, what’s wrong with it?” he asked.
“Nothing is wrong with it. You’re the first to call. I supposed nobody believed the ad.”
He decided to look at it. She let him take a test drive. The car looked exquisite and ran perfectly. He just couldn’t believe his luck!
“The car is yours for $75.00,” the woman said emphatically, “on one condition. I want the money now and I want you to drive it away so I never have to see it again.”
He paid her and took the keys. “Please tell me, lady,” he persisted. “You could have sold this car for thirty thousand dollars. What’s going on?”
She told him her story: “I bought this car for my husband on our fortieth wedding anniversary. Two weeks ago he went fishing with his friends leaving me here alone, last week I got a call from him. He said, ‘Need money, sell car, and send some cash.’ I’m doing just that!”
She was so angry that to avenge her husband’s fishing trip she sold his car for a pittance. I’m sure she would have regretted later.
“Anger is the noise of the soul, the unseen irritant of the heart, the relentless invader of silence!”
“Still yourself! What happened yesterday you can’t alter, but your response to yesterday you can! You can either lash out by selling the car and destroying something valuable or being still, forgiving the other person and carrying on with life!
There’s a lot of anger brewing during the lockdown, and the fear of an uncertain future gets us provoked very quickly at home. Think of these situations as a learning time, to handle your anger, and when the lockdown ends, walk out a new man or woman with your anger on a leash!
Or..
You can walk out of this lockdown with a broken marriage or strained relationship with your parents or children which will be exactly like selling your costly car for seventy-five dollars…!

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