Self-Witnessing Report on the
Age of Rage
Report and Analysis of My Rages in the Age of Rage
By Kelly Hur last
updated: May 6, 2001
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“If you are patient in one moment of
anger, You will escape a hundred days of
sorrow.” CHINESE PROVERB |
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In our everyday life, how many times
would you say you rage? If you think
never, than you are mistaken. Many people would view rage as something like a
tantrum, where you go into serious anger episodes that is very violent. But
that is not the case. It could be just your thought about raging, negative
thought about doing something, negative imagination toward someone or
something, it could be basically anything that you can imagine. We can label
these behaviors as rage as we express our
feelings and emotions to the world that we live in. From my Annotated
Bibliography on the Age of Rage, you will see that the rages that we know
are not only the out of control outrage that we previously believed. Many
times, it comes in a subtle way or sometimes more bolder and identifiable way
and this rage is expressed from almost every aspect of our lives. Either at
workplace or at school, or even at restaurants, hospitals, sports games, in
the roads. I had labeled them as WORK RAGE:
Features three websites
that describe the growing danger zone in our workplace. Some of the sites offer
help in dealing with the workplace violence and brings to our attention, the seriousness
of rages in our work force. NURSE RAGE: This is a site that is related to the work rage. Nurse rage
is a major issue that is becoming recognized. Nursing professional have created
many sites that expresses their rage towards the doctors, patients, and other
people in the related field. TAXI RAGE: Taxi drivers are considered to be in the profession with one of
the highest violent acts acted upon them. Murders, attacks, these serious
issue brought such taxi drivers into rage! FAN RAGE: Why would fans rage? While attending sports events, many fans get
injured, attacked physically and verbally. These sites introduce the rages
that some of the soccer fans have from all over the world. WAITER RAGE: Waiters rage?? Yes, they rage against their customers. You’ll find
all the gross stories of their raging episode and what they did about it! However,
there are many more rages. Rage is not only limited to crazy, or out of
control people. It is what normal people have to deal with everyday. Most of
the time, we express them but there is many times, where we witness others in
expressing the rage. Whatever the case, rage is something, that has come up in our
attention and is considered as a big problem in this society. It is global
problem and it needs to be addressed. We all need to do something about it
because it has become a serious matter. The violence that take place in this
world is becoming a world crisis and we all need to work at it to improve it.
But is there solution? Many psychologists and sociologist study these issues. The violence in
our life, from the television set, movie screens, news, or even from the
street has been on the increase. May be these violence that we see on daily
basis has made us become more accustomed to it and has some effect on our out
of control behaviors and thoughts. From the society’s view, even the freedom
of speech that we have could be a possible factor that contributes to our
increasing rage in the world. May be we began to take advantage or take it
for granted such privilege of freedom of speech and began to use it to hurt and
jeopardize the relationship between the people that we deal in our lives. I am going to take 3 episodes that I consider RAGE EPISODES. It has
version of the story, and my self-witnessing observation of that incident
using the Three-step methods, and also provide some theories that could
explain some of my behaviors, thoughts, and feelings that lead to rage.
After
reading this page, how many times would you say you rage? I’m sure it is more
than what you previously have thought. It is really important to realize that
rage is a serious issues. Road rage, Air rage, Work rage, these terms are
already known and brought public’s attention due to its growing problems it
has on our society and to individuals as well. The seriousness of this issue
can be realized when each individual become more aware of their own rage
episodes. It is each individual who is in charge of the rage. If we become aware
of our action, thoughts, and feelings before we rage, many conflicts may be
resolved without becoming a problem. When we become consciously aware of our
sensorimotor, cognitive, and affective self, we will come to better
understanding of who we are and can begin to bring positive changes to our
lives. This perhaps, may lead to finding peace and happiness in our lives.
REFERENCES Goleman,
Daniel (1998), Working With Emotional Intelligence, New York: Bantam Books. Matsumoto,
D. (1996), Culture and Psychology. Brooks/Cole Pub Co. |
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