Empowered by Anger?

[shades]

well... probably everyone gets to find their own answer to that question. the parts of positive human experience i was talking about were things like loving someone, feeling loved, wanted, nurtured, cared about, worthwhile to one or more other humans. caring about other people in those same ways, nurturing someone else. having a sense of belonging. feeling deeply connected to and understood by someone else.

all those things take vulnerability. so in some ways, even though being vulnerable can be terrifying, vulnerability can actually be a good thing. and anger shuts down vulnerability like a steel trap.

at least that's what i've started to think in the past couple years.