What Makes You Angry?

I found myself this morning asking the question, “What makes me angry?” I suppose I was thinking this way after reading the morning’s papers about murders on the streets, political bickering, and international strife, to name a few of our problems. I think of myself as a mild mannered person, so I thought to myself about what made me angry?

I think it is right to be angry at injustice, but I don’t believe that injustice should be fought or countered by another injustice. Our response to injustice must be tempered by our obligation to love one another. I get angry at cruelty, bullying, and mistreatment, but again my anger can’t be a mirror’s reflection of the behavior I find abhorrent.

Maybe the solution is for me to always keep my anger in check for I’m not sure what the appropriate response should be. I don’t know. Today is a day for questions not answers.

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Webb Hubbell is the former Associate Attorney General of The United States. His novels, When Men Betray, Ginger Snaps, A Game of Inches, The Eighteenth Green, and The East End are published by Beaufort Books and are available online or at your local bookstore. When Men Betray won one of the IndieFab awards for best novel in 2014. Ginger Snaps and The Eighteenth Green won the IPPY Awards Gold Medal for best suspense/thriller. His latest, “Light of Day” will be on the bookstands soon.