You ever notice how sometimes we all feel like a soda that has been shaken too much? Doesn't matter if it is anger or sadness or just crap better left unsaid, something is bubbling up and refuses to be contained. It seems that, lately, a lot of that is going around. For me it is a lot of anger, mostly about money issues (I can hear the "amen"s and "preach on, brother"s on that one lol) but there are other things going on as well.
When you are young and mostly single these things aren't much of an issue. You break something or whatever and feel better. But as you get more "mature", i.e. older, buying your own stuff, married, have kids (any or all of those), you have examples to set. You have to be calm and rational in your discussions. No punching walls, cutting yourself, yelling or screaming at your significant other, etc. For some people that is no issue at all.....but for others (me) that is no small task.
What people that want to keep shaking the" soda bottle of rage" don't realize is that they aren't helping. Not everyone processes there issues the same way, for some it is all about being close to loved ones. For others, we need time to be isolated. We need time to dig into the really dark parts of our psyche. We have to get all the stuff that is buried deep and adding to all the anger and deal with it on our own. We need to be able to cuss, scream, pace, call ourselves (and everyone else) names that the kiddies don't need to hear, especially in the combinations I come up with, and even curl up in a ball and weep, not cry but weep.
After we go through all that, what we "introspective isolationists" need to get through our thick-ass skulls is that we are lucky to have people that would put up with all the stuff in the previous paragraph and do it gladly. So to all the people that have introspective isolationists in their lives I say "Back off"... :) and "Thanks for letting me deal in my own way".
PS
I know "soda bottle of rage" is goofy as heck but sometimes that is simply how I roll :)
