Slow to Anger, Great in Understanding

📝Reflection

To feel anger and to be dragged by it are different. Even the understanding grow angry, but they leave a gap between the anger and themselves. When the Hebrew sage said 'slow to anger,' he did not mean suppress the feeling but pause before reacting. That brief delay turns impulse into wisdom. The quick-tempered move anger straight into action and make things to regret later; the slow use the interval to see the situation again. The Stoics, too, said freedom lies in the space between stimulus and response. We cannot erase anger, but we can keep it from steering us. That one beat is maturity itself.