Fear Control.
Unfortunately, us as a species has this impulsive ability to react to an emotion, resulting in some of the most abhorrent things fathomable. One response to emotion can be as swift as taking another's life, when if that moment were allowed to pass, it might have not happened. This could be fueled with anger or rage; deeper driven by hurt and shame. These feelings we all have causing us to react to a situation are just that, feelings, and they do pass. Like the waves in the water or a fart in the wind, it might be intense, or in my case, nauseating, as my dog Benny likes to produce, but then it passes, gone. For both a person who commits a violent act, as well as the people's response to a violent act, our FEELS will soon pass, thus leaving in their wake: destruction, isolation, increased shame, increased anger, more fuel for resentment or some external act of change to justify the intense emotions. Unfortunately, last week, as in many cases before, there was an act of violenc...