Daniel Smith

I mean, what I find in my work as a psychotherapist is that a lot of people are experiencing pain not because they're acting on their emotions, but simply because they're feeling it.

But I concede the point that there are different degrees of these emotions.

I personally am less prone to anger and rage than I am to annoyance.

I have a sort of strong, what the psychologists call an annoyance proneness.

And sometimes I act on that.

I usually don't.

Usually the only person that really hurts is myself.

And finding some way to accept that I am someone who gets annoyed.

I'm not sure there's any way ever that I'm going to find a way to not be an easily irritated person.

The alleviation of the pain might be simply to accept the fact that I'm someone who gets annoyed pretty easily and then move on.

I mean, what happens is we very often feel these things and we grab onto them.

We sort of latch onto them as a problem.

And the thing to do, the thing to learn is to how to notice the emotions.

I'm feeling annoyed right now.

Now I can move on with my day or with the moment or something like that.

I don't need to dive into it.

Now I'm going to let it go.

Here it is, and I'm not going to continue along that line.

I take that point as well.

But again, I have not found a way in my own life to be less annoyed.