The Red and Black

As students, sometimes we get extremely mad. As people, we can become enraged with complete anger. As a form of life, sometimes we want to kill the first thing that looks at us the wrong way.

However, as humans, who have the ability to reason, we have to control that anger. We have to confront the anger and channel it to a place where it can not hurt anyone.

Whether I'm angry at my brother or the guy who kicked my injured leg, I can not allow my anger to control me.

Why? One half of me wants to destroy, but the other half calms me down and keeps me in check.

As students, we sometimes get angry because we are inundated with the floods of stress. But, we are still responsible for our actions.

When you are angry or mad at someone, you want the person to feel as bad as you do. Therefore, you might say anything or everything you can to degrade them, not considering that they will always remember what you said.

If a woman is impregnated by a rapist, why does she kill the innocent child through abortion? Rape is a horrible crime and can cause intensive pain and stress, but the woman should not channel her anger toward the child.

Or why will parents, who are in the midst of a divorce, channel the anger they feel toward their spouse at their children? Parents will complain to their child about their mate or even try to make their child choose sides.

Why must people perform acts such as hate crimes, revealing the high amount of ignorance and low amount of intelligence they have? When students' anger and hatred becomes so strong that they attempt to burn down a dorm, even Ray Charles can see that they have a problem. First, the people who are being hated are not the only ones at risk, hundreds of people's lives are. And last, why spend the rest of your life behind bars and ruin your future, because you can not control your anger. You should hate yourself for even considering to commit a crime of that nature.

If someone would have taught the two middle school students in Arkansas, who recently killed four of their classmates, how to deal with their anger, then that incident might never have happened.

All of these examples are ways that people incorrectly channeled their anger. There are some positive ways of dealing with anger.

If you went to workout at the Ramsey Student Center, filled with stress and anger, that adrenaline might have you working out like you didn't think you could. When you aren't stressed months later, you will look back at how your problems had you down and then look at your new fit body. Then you would know that you did something to channel your anger.

Others ways include writing poetry, which I do, jogging, thinking positive and reading books on North Campus. At least something positive will come out of a negative period of your life.

All of us sometimes will channel our anger to the wrong place. Sometimes, that may seem like the best thing to do. Those five hours of anger can lead you to 50 years in priso. Think about the outcome of your actions. And remember, if you can control your mind, you can control your actions.

– Mark Anthony Thomas is a staff writer for The Red and Black.

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