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What is your default emotion?
Is anger your default emotion?
I was in a friend’s car earlier this week.
He was kindly giving me a lift to a birthday party.
Not sure if we were particularly late because I was not too sure what time the party was meant to start.
I noticed a car in front of us driving slowly and then suddenly stopped because the traffic lights we were driving towards turned red.
At this point I heard my friend say “D*head”
He was angry with the driver ahead of us.
His slow driving caused us to be caught behind the red light when we could have easily gone through.
I thought nothing of it at this point.
The party was a great success and my friend dropped me off home later on that same evening.
The next day I was out on a reflective walking session.
Events of the day before when my friend became angry over our traffic incident suddenly came to mind.
How can a lovely, kind, somewhat quiet friend suddenly switch to an aggressive person.
I believe in life we work from a baseline.
What came to my mind as our baseline emotion was fear.
