Shaggy's Left Handed Journey In Writing

Hello once more readers,

Today I wanted to take a few moments to look at, and try to explain why I try to write more when I am experiencing anger and frustration. I won’t try to hide that I am an angry person most of the time, and this fact has caused me some trouble over the years. I have only been working on trying to overcome my anger instead of it overcoming me, and my writing during this time has definitely helped me by allowing me to examine not just the incident of anger but also my thoughts during this time as well.

When I am angry, my thoughts all get jumbled up and mixed together, so it becomes very hard for me to distinguish one thought from another and I tend to spread my anger to more things. Since I started writing down my angry thoughts and situations, I think I am doing a little bit better at expressing my anger. As I am writing down my thoughts, I am able to really look at each and every thought to see if that is actually what is fueling my anger or just one that is affected by the anger. This is not an easy thing to do while in the heat of the moment, but I think it is worth the effort to really put in the effort here.

I have also learned that by writing my thoughts down during these more emotional times, I can sometime stop the negative spiral of thoughts that I often find myself in. Writing in something like an angry journal can really be like venting out at someone without needing to worry about hurting the hearers’ feelings. I personally have a very hard time opening up to people, even my best friends and family, so the chance to really vent helps me quite a bit.

I also appreciate the fact that after I have written down these angry thoughts and calmed down, I am free to destroy them if I so please. For me a spoken word is a very powerful thing, and even the act of writing something down gives it some power. By destroying these words, I find that I am able to feel a certain freedom from these thoughts. I still have a very long way to go before I will feel like I have control over my anger, but I do find that writing has been an exceptional tool to add to my toolkit for dealing with life.

I know that this has been a slightly more serious and personal post, but as life likes to throw curveballs at at all of us this just seemed like a good time for this post. I don’t know what my next post is going to be about, but I hope it won’t be such a downer. Once again if you have any questions that you would like for to address in a future post, please feel free to leave me a comment and I will try to answer as soon as possible. Until next post readers. Stay happy and healthy, and keep on learning!

Shaggy