What lies behind...?
Behind every great emotion stands another, shyer one. Behind anger, it is usually hurt: betrayal, abandonment, injustice, disappointment. If we are focused on the anger and its complications, it's demands, then we don't have to be so immersed in the the thing that hurt so much we turned to the anesthetizing heat of anger. Anger anesthetizes the pain, while it energizes us to run away from it, or at something else. We can run for leagues, for years to evade the original pain, but there it... Sign in to see full entry.