Channeling Anger

What does one do with so much anger?

Hopefully channel it in a positive way.

Lately I have been dealing with a lot of angry people. Could it just be that we’ve all had enough of whatever BS we’re dealing with? Could it be a mercury retrograde that I didn’t know about? Could it be that we finally feel like we are allowed to vent? Whatever it is, I feel like I have been absorbing a lot of anger and it’s enough to make me want to scream even though I personally do not have that much to be angry about.

Actually, I do have ONE thing to be angry about - and that is Booking.com arbitrarily turning off my account for “security reasons” without telling me, and then not giving me a reason why, not giving me a way to get my account reinstated and several phone calls where no rep would do anything. I have been using Booking.com for over 8 years. Perhaps the love affair is now over. I have to summon energy to call them for a third time (since everyone says third time is a charm…). If that fails then I am going to write to their privacy officer. Pro-tip, find the company’s privacy policy, click it and then find the email of the lawyer at the company and threaten to take action. (Well, first I have to see if it works before this is guaranteed pro-tip. Considering I am on the receiving end of this at my day job, I can tell you that it definitely gets someone’s attention).

So. Anger. How do we channel it productively? I am not sure. I just know that its good to do so. Maybe it’s just to direct it towards an outlet that is positive. I am still noodling through this one. All this to say, maybe anger doesn’t have to be an all bad emotion. Maybe like all other emotions (which are temporary), the key is to channel it towards something productive and positive. Maybe that’s a high-bar. But it certainly beats staying mad and seething. That’s just too toxic to the body.