Dr. Laurence J. Peter is labeled as one of America's foremost hierarchiologists. Don't know what that is? No worries, neither does Webster's Dictionary.

In any case, we turn to this Vancouver born educational doctor for his quote.

Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.

How right he is. Its like the top being blown off the radiator with big bellowing steam shooting everywhere. I have never become uncontrollably angry. I have never been in a top of your lungs shouting match or angry enough that i thought of any type of physical harm. Instead, my anger turns to disappointment in the action. I can recall instances where anger become synonomous with confusion. I say that meaning that when confused, i can't think straight. Being thrown in a mouse-like maze with a countdown clock and only one escape route, but no ideas of how to reach it. I believe anger is a reaction in which a person fails to control their emotions. The mind is racing to regain control, or take control. Further, it reacts in defense shutting down all points of entry, closing the windows, gating the doors in self-preservation.

Where does anger come from? Is my state of confusion and neediness to understand, my comparable anger? I've spoken in anger/confusion, and regretted the conversations. Its no wonder how others can't understand when i've spoken without making sense in my own mind.

In closing for today, anger is as much about confusion or losing control, as it is about regret. I know that could have avoided angered circumstance by conscious thought, decision and action. Perhaps, the anger is only a reflection of the disappointment i feel for failing myself, and what i know to be true, of what i am truly capable of.