The blurred lines of sadness and anger

As I was writing my latest blog post, I started thinking about the blurred lines of sadness and anger. Because it seemed like I said a lot that something was upsetting, or that something was angering.

How do these seem so different, yet also so similiar?

What lends to one, versus the other?

Well, when I think about it, sadness is a despair where you don’t necessarily want to do anything about it, no action, you’re just taking it as it is, taking it in, accepting it, in a way? Not that you’re necessarily accepting it, or accepting it as the truth to therefore then do nothing about it, but I’m just not sure what other word to input here. The point is, you’re just seeing the essence of whatever it is that’s making you sad. You’re allowing yourself to see it and come to terms with it enough to see it as it is.

But then anger, is the total flip side PRO-ACTIVE step after sadness, maybe. With anger you want to do something, you want to hit something, you’re frustrated. But the frustration, and the whole point with the anger, at least the way I’m viewing it, and maybe about the specific things that I have been sad and angry about: you can’t actually do anything about it. It’s just not solvable. It’s just the way it is. Your anger, is valid, but it will not go anywhere, because you cannot do anything about it. Which is in a way…sad? Freeing?

And that is when I start to think that that anger is useless, you should just let it go, because no matter what, you can’t actually solve your problem, at least, not with anger. Maybe some other solution…a mindset/positive twist to it like…”maybe, I shouldn’t care so much about this. I shouldn’t give it this power it has over me. It’s not actually this deep. I free myself and let it go.”