The Pursuit of Happiness

“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson 

Anger - that state of being of antagonism, indignant rage, desire for vengeance, jealousy, resentment - has become a popular means of expression in this day and age of liberation, of self-determination, of assertiveness.  Have we crossed too far to the other side?  Negative emotions that lead to negative actions are not the mark of the strong, but rather the refuge of the weak.  It is the weak who rely on their "right" to self-expression as an excuse to vent their anger.  But consider: any form of negative emotion is, by definition, negative - it is harmful, deleterious to health, both physical and emotional.  And anything that does not support resonant, brilliant health of body and mind necessarily is the robber of such states.  Do not permit your house to be robbed.  Do not become vulnerable to the seducer that is anger.  Do not allow yourself to succumb to the lie that anger is useful.  It is not.  It is a mark of weakness, a road to perdition.