Hi,
Regarding anger, the reason I think it's a weak emotion is because I feel weak when I'm angry.
For example, it's happened that I have been out and about and someone has pissed me off with some kind of rude or inconsiderate crap, and I have walked around in a bad mood.I have been angry all day, and gone home and moaned about what happened to my girlfriend and stressed her out as well. Great eh?
This is weakness. Period. Point.
When we allow the rudeness or stupidity of other people to upset us, we are being weak. There's no question in my mind about this.
In order to feel strong, I have to feel confident. And to me feeling confident means a strong and neutral feeling. Of course anger is not a negative emotion in itself, I don't believe that any emotion is negative. But our reactions to our emotions are either positive or negative. What we do with them. How we use them.
I agree that overcoming hardships leads to a stronger character, and this is what will make us more courageous. Especially if we force ourselves to confront things that we fear. But this is very hard, and I really struggle with this myself.
I think being morally brave is easy in theory, but in my experience it's not easy in practice.
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