My anger issues really worry me sometimes. While my anger is not violent - I don’t hit things (or people), or do something otherwise destructive - it wants to rise up in me so quick, and sometimes it is a real struggle to keep it down.

Recently, I posted a link to Facebook about the Elliot Rodger case - namely, that his crime and choice of victims was partially motivated by racism - to start a conversation and see what my more intelligent friends thought. And that’s what I got, so what worries me is why I got angry at their responses. Maybe because it’s a personal issue to me, and that I felt they were being dismissive of my point of view. (Which is unreasonable, because I had not specifically articulated my point of view yet.) Maybe because I’m so used to most of my friends not being able to relate or not caring about the issues I do, and that my frustration boils over sometimes because of this. It’s going to be a long road. Maybe I’ll never fully get over my anger issues. But I really, really want to try to.