Raging At The Wrong Thing

The email says people often get angry at delays, traffic, and other circumstances that take time, energy, money, or even other people from them. It argues that this anger is misplaced because those situations are outside our control.

Reading notes

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• A delayed flight prompts frustration because it takes away time with family.
• Marcus Aurelius, quoting Euripides, warns against giving circumstances the power to rouse anger.
• The email points out the inconsistency of raging at outside forces while letting our own wasted time pass without the same reproach.
• Since the world will take things from us whether we like it or not, the only part left is what we do with the control we have.
• If criticism is to be directed anywhere, it should be toward the time and energy we squander ourselves.