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I am an introspective kind of guy, which is a good think to be when you've got so much valuable wisdom to share with the world. Today I'd like to talk about anger, specifically the manifestation of anger which often appears as losing one's temper. I have noticed that I have the tendency to get really angry at inanimate objects, which if you stop and think about it is really stupid. Just the other day I was emptying the trash can, taking the bag out of the can, when pieces of trash started falling out the top onto the floor. "Man!" "Don't do that!" "Stupid trash!" Of course my talking to the garbage was peppered with the appropriate descriptive adjectives and an occasional colorful noun. Finally I got all the trash back in the bag, and outside ready for collection. On may way back through the backyard, I had one of those moments, kind of a cross between an epiphany and an embarrassed thankfulness that no one had seen my behaviour. I realized that the individual pieces of trash could do nothing except obey the natural laws of physics. That trash can would have stayed undisturbed and peaceful for a millenia had not I shown up to take it away. It was I, no one and nothing else that had initiated the chain of events which caused some of the garbage to end up on the floor. This poses somewhat of a dilemma; if I shouldn't be angry at the trash, and I hadn't intentionally done anything wrong, logically there was no reason to be angry... But the fact remains that I had become angry; why had this happened? The simple fact of the matter is that the whole incident was a big misunderstanding. I at the time had felt that the trash was intentionally messing with me. Because the trash was unable to defend its actions I lashed out and took my frustration out verbally. Fortunately, because I am an introspective person, I was able to settle down, look at it from the trash's perspective, and recognize that it really wasn't the trash's fault. I walked away from this whole situation a better person, and now that I'm so humbly reporting it to you, I know that you'll be better people too.