The Anger Switch

Everybody has an anger switch, that one little thing that will turn you from a gentle person to raging ball of fury. Sometimes, looking back, it seems that it wasn't that big an issue to lose your head over it, but you couldn't control the anger at that particular moment, when your anger switch was triggered.

Which is why it is of the utmost importance that you find your anger switch, to save yourself and others the hurt, pain and confusion that will surely come with the accidental trigger of your anger switch.

My anger switch is when someone tells me that I go against who I think I am. To put in simpler terms, I hate it when someone tells me that I'm doing things that goes against my own morals or characteristics that I hold in high regard. For example, I know that I am good in English, has an uncanny sense of direction, and I am a very loyal friend. If someone were to say, for example, "Your English is terrible." or "You have a terrible sense of direction." or "You always backstab your friends, don't you?" I am going to bite his/her head off so violently he/she would wish he/she were in a video game.

I don't really mind much if they have proper evidence to support themselves, like telling me where my English is terrible, and how I can improve it; or when I really do lose my way someplace (highly unlikely) and just teasingly; but when you bring something up when I am just awake, you have insulted me and left me unprepared to control my anger switch, and I will slam the door, thank you very much. Although in today's case I'd say I did a rather good job of not yelling and calming myself down.

Triggers for my anger switch change across time, but not dramatically. A few years back I could easily lose my head over someone telling me I draw like shit, but now I have accepted the fact that yes, I draw like shit. A little better than shit, but not much.

Pinpointing my own anger switch lets me lose my anger less often, and increased my lifespan by a good few years due to not losing my anger that much. It has also let me seen that I am indeed an egoistical person who isn't willing to tell me what to do, and I have no idea whether that's good or not.

Either way, don't flip my anger switch. Especially concerning my sense of direction.

But feel free to point out all my other flaws, like being shit in drawing, or having the tidying skills of a raccoon.