Categories: anything-and-everything
Date: 15 November 2006 15:58:43
...and I don't mean removing guns and suchlike from them, but more their ability to totally disarm anger at just the right time.
I have just come indoors absolutely seething and fuming about a situation to do with where I live (though it would be inappropriate to give any details of that) but it's sufficient to say that gentle little soul that I generally am, this 'happening' wound me up so much that I was brewing a "God help the next person who looks at me the wrong way" type thing! And so I came in the door deciding who I was going to have an almighty rant at, but sat down at my computer first. In my e-mail inbox was one of those forwarded type e-mails from a good friend, so I opened it and it was a wonderful set of photos of friendship and support of all kinds... people, dogs, cats, humourous and cute, and as I scrolled my way down I felt the anger seeping gradually away - and when I read the accompanying comment of one photo, "practice patience and tolerance" I cried just a little bit!
And just a little while on I am feeling calm again inside, because God knew exactly the right moment I would need that friend, and between them they disarmed that anger completely.
(I suppose I could just add that this is all the more significant for me at the moment as having moved a few times in the last few years, I'm really missing some of my close friends who I don't get to see quite so often (even though I'm surrounded by lovely people here) but it just goes to show that they're still there just when you need them!).