Write What Disturbs You

 

From time to time, we get pissed out, we feel slighted, we get offended OR worst, we feel aggrieved.  Then things will pile up.  Respected American author Natalie Goldberg says it all:  WRITE WHAT DISTURBS YOU, WHAT YOU FEAR, WHAT YOU HAVE NOT BEEN WILLING TO SPEAK ABOUT.  BE WILLING TO BE SPLIT OPEN.  But psychologists always remind us to realize that life is crowded with stress, demanding work, gloomy circumstances and the potential for aggravation from others, both in person and even online.  So, HOW do handle things when ANGER goes beyond boiling point and overflows???

YES, allow me to share HOW I did handle things from my end from way back till now.  I got this peculiar habit of resorting to my notes WHENEVER I feel that I'm in distress and that made me improve myself [by at least a notch or two] to be masterful enough of my self-awareness and admittedly, that has worked wonders in almost all aspects of my life.  Especiall these days WHERE you DON'T have that lame excuse that you DON'T have a pen and paper.  You got your NOTES App right on your phone!!!

Many times in the past, anger, fear and resentment kept building up within me UNTIL I would realize that it's festering my body.  WHAT I always did and invoked was to summon my own mental clarity that was needed to process my pent up emotions flooding and overflowing even within me.  And those overworked thoughts were one too heavy for me to handle and I CAN'T imagine WHAT could have happened next IF I didn't managed to unload it💚💛💜

WHAT did all these bring me in [through the years]?  It brought me peace gazillion times and even strengthened my respective relationships both at work and at home.  And here's the thing.  There's something transformative about forcing myself out of an aggravated situation and into a self-reflection mode.  I admit that it made me resilient, reflecting and level-headed.  On the side, I realized that, over time [and NOT instantly], I shed off that misplaced cockiness WHICH I sometimes manifested.  And if this works for you as it did for me, it will likely result in yu becoming a more compassionate, more understanding and more forgiving person [UNLIKE prior to that, I just treated things as either a black OR white, a correct versus wrong kind of thing].  And YES, you might have people coming up to you wondering HOW you are so 'chill', having ceased to take anything personally OR too seriously ever again❎❎❎

Our takeaway:  If there's one harsh lesson I learnt the hard way [many times in the past], it is a fact that keeping things to yourself will eventually cause it to  blow up and out [even if sometimes it will blow up and out deep within you].  So, IF we're into this dilemma, let's consider it, finding an outlet, an avenue to pour things out and writing privately is NOT just about writing [BTW, you DON'T need to have dreams to become a writter/blogger] BUT making yourself a better person.  YES dude, WRITE WHAT DISTURBS you😡😡😡