Anger although perceived as a negative emotion, is one of our core feelings, and just as important to an individual as happiness, and sadness. Anger shapes who we are. Anger is a powerful emotion that hasn’t just shaped us as individuals, but society as we know it. Do you embrace your anger, and use it as a motivational aid? I do.

I suffer from an almost constant anger, even when I’m happy. The anger keeps me going, it fuels the fire that drives me, the very fire that makes me the man i am today. I grew up in a dysfunctional family, and in a rough neighborhood. I learnt as a very young kid to harness my anger and use it as a shield to protect myself. I expressed this anger through violence, and my ability to stand up for myself. You either stand up for yourself or you get stepped on. There’s not a living human being on the face of the planet that can get in my way. I know who i am, and i know what I’m about. Fuck anybody who doesn’t like that! My anger is a result of having to prove myself to everyone in my life, and dealing with pain and negativity through my childhood and teen years. People don’t like it if you have too much to say, or if you refuse to mould to an ideal. They hate you if your different, or better than they are. They brand you as a rebel if your headstrong or even assertive. People try to pick every fault you have, despite how minuscule, just to bring you down, and i guess my anger played its part then in shielding me. Id never let anybody bring me down.

I see myself as strong both intellectually and physically. I mean there’s no denying this. I don’t work out but i can pick up my 140 kg brother like as if he was a rag doll! I could pick up and carry four 40 kilogram cement bags , and i could do this any time of the day! In the boxing ring i used to break most men that tower over my 5′7 frame. As for my intellectual ability, well i write three different scripts, I speak two languages fluently also. I was reading encyclopedias and reading and writing two scripts as a six year old when all the other kids were reading Dr Seuss and drawing in crayons. I could hold a conversation with passersby back in my Serbian homeland, and i was just two years old, something most five year old kids couldn’t do. I have good artistic skill, and I’m a master when it comes to paint and panel on a car. My general knowledge would be on par with most prominent intellectuals, and I’m just a high school dropout. I could debate anybody as a result, because i find it so easy to out think most people. As a worker, five Africans couldn’t replace me. As a family man, I’ve proved i could look after a family and even support family overseas too. As a lover, I’m a man who gives it my all, and I’ve never failed to satisfy. I’m not model material, and i can come across as a little intimidating, but then I’m better looking than most men out there. I don’t like to talk myself up, and i rarely do as I’m far from  perfect, at least  you see i know what I’m about. Despite being talked down and discouraged my whole life, I’ve used my anger to my advantage, to keep me going and stay true to myself.

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  • qasimdharamsy on Feb 27, 2010

    Nice one….

  • Silent Wasp on Feb 27, 2010

    Whats so nice about this? Please explain.

  • bbbbb on Jan 29, 2011

    dont like to talk yourself up
    you had a whole section dedicated to taking yourself up

  • Kenya Hall on Mar 31, 2012

    I absolutely love this! It so describes me as a person and I will now on embrace this anger that I have inside me. Just today, I felt disrespected by an employee at the post office. He decided that he was going to be lazy and not help me with my needs when I spend a lot of money there. I felt his customer service was terrible and that he was dumb and I told him this.

    You’re right, people will try to step on and take advantage of you if you let them, but I’ve always been one lady who will tell you exactly what I think and have no problems suffering the consequences of those actions.

    At the same time, I will always give those I know and don’t know the respect their due…until I’m fucked with and then it goes down.

    Thank you for putting these great words together so well that I can truly understand and relate.

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