Who Are You

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This husband and I…

Were having lunch at a favorite eatery…tables close together…a couple and a woman sat nearby…chatting…laughing…the woman’s husband joins them…and off…he…went…

A tantrum…a man tantrum…a mantrum…furious…that they were sitting at the same table as last time…furious…that they had to wait for the other people who were joining them…furious…that his wife didn’t tell the hostess they wanted to sit on the patio…he was loud…relentless…cruel…

At the same time…a woman passed by with her older son…he most likely autistic…over stimulated…pushing a pet stroller…suddenly shuts down…the mother…upset…yells at him…to just push the da** thing…

And so it is…in life…there’s anger…we feel it…we react to it…but what kind of anger…do we portray…is it frustrated…overwhelmed…I’m so exhausted I can’t go on anger…

Or is it…I’m a selfish…entitled…jerk of a jerk…mantrum type of anger…

Look deep down…look in the mirror…look to those who love you…therein…lies the answer…
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And those daughters of mine…agree…