Question of the Day

[ayoub]

How long does your anger last?

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I'm a firecracker with a long fuse... Slow to start, then Boom! But afterwards, all is well :D

Comments

[milagro75.livejournal.com]

It depends on the situation overall really. Sometimes it takes me a while, and other times I can sort of play off of the other person and anger more quickly. And it usually takes me a while to get over it. There's a country song called "I Just Wanna Be Mad For a While" - that's me. ;)

[amante-donne.livejournal.com]

depends, sometimes weeks, sometimes minutes.

[patchworld.livejournal.com]

I get irritated very quickly, but the anger dies off quickly. :)

[alainn-mactire.livejournal.com]

I think I'm similar to you - I'll build and build and build, then explode. Then two minutes later, I'm fine.

Well, unless it was something really serious that pissed me off...

I flare at first, burn bright briefly, but it's over once the smoke clears...

[padiwack.livejournal.com]

(http://s271.photobucket.com/albums/jj131/padiwack_album/?action=view&current=250px-Streichholz.jpg)

Re: I flare at first, burn bright briefly, but it's over once the smoke clears...

[seegwa.livejournal.com]

That's an amazing picture!

[libra-dragon.livejournal.com]

Depends but usually a day or two

[evergladesqueen.livejournal.com]

not long at all. thank the universe for that

[cerebralpig.livejournal.com]

I grumble and settle most often but I do occasionally erupt... then I cool off pretty quickly if just left to run my course. :0

[catwoman2704.livejournal.com]

My anger can build over minutes, hours, days weeks even and then my goodness i blow....

then once ive done that everything is fine with the world again

[gillian16.livejournal.com]

Well I think that depends on what I am angry about. But with most things, I am angry and then one day I am not any longer. Don't like carrying that crap around with me so I dump it as soon as possible. But it is an exercise in inner strength at times. ;o) Know what I'm sayin'?

[ktsies2.livejournal.com]

It takes A LOT to get me angry. If I am continually provoked it does not go away that quickly, however, usually, it just goes right away.

[seegwa.livejournal.com]

Very situation dependent... It takes a while to get me good and angry and the situation determines how long I stay good and angry.

[wanderingcherie.livejournal.com]

Depends. It's over pretty quickly for most things. The major things take longer to really get over.

[mousie.livejournal.com]

It takes a whole lot to get me angry...I will put up with a lot before I hit my limit. So when I am finally pushed to the point of true anger, it means something big has gone on, so it may take a bit. Also, if whatever it is that made me angry to start with keeps cropping up, It makes it really hard to forget it. I suppose if I didn't put up with so much to begin with that wouldn't happen lol.

[chiropteraclan.livejournal.com]

It really takes a lot to get me angry. A lot. More than most people ever will push me toward. Thank the universe, considering what I do for a living. But I'm the same. Slow to build, and then boom, and then it's over. It's a huge chance from my younger years.

[donnickcottage.livejournal.com]

No more than a millennia.... usually

[beatzz.livejournal.com]

Much like you, it takes me a while to get really riled up, but once I blow... It's one BIG burst. It's a short one, though. So... Hm. It's usually mostly gone afterwards, but sometimes it comes back.

[1-rhiannon-1.livejournal.com]

Ever see the Incredible Hulk? That's me: Rhiannon ANGRY! Rhiannon SMASH! OK, Rhiannon all better now. Well, I used to be that way. My anger still flashes fast and hot but I get over it really quickly.

[popfiend.livejournal.com]

Did you read DFT today because WOW that's really?...WOW!!!

[mighty-rontor.livejournal.com]

Much like you, it doesn't last long. In fact, If I can destroy something without value when it gets to be too much, I can usually get my head on straight to tackle the problem.

It's only when I'm seething that I hold onto the hate. Like when I was at a really lonely point in my life and some friend of a friend said that I should lower my standards because I wouldn't get the type of woman I was after in a manner that implied that I wasn't good enough. I was ready to flay her skin off quite slowly for years after that. My friend JJ was there and he immediately noticed the vitriol behind my eyes. An hour and a half later she went to save seats at the movie theater for us. It was then that JJ asked if I was alright. I told him that I wanted to drag her behind a truck for a quarter mile. She became his roomie and every time he mentioned something bad happening to her (with genuine sympathy I might add), I would revel in her suffering and guffaw and cackle like some evil lunatic.

Happily, those grudges are very rare except for Jesuits.

[innerly.livejournal.com]

i'm short tempered (like a true cliche fierey latina), but it goes as easy as it comes

[hippie-geisha.livejournal.com]

I'm like you...it takes alot to piss me off. I'm over it very quickly, usually withing seconds if not minutes.

[fox-bard.livejournal.com]

Depends on the situation and the response of the other side.

I have a slow fuse on most issues, and I'm very willing to discuss and compromise - but if I am not met half way with respect and an honoured word, I can hold a grudge until the situation is remedied or human existence on the Earth ends.

In order to keep from being a curmudgeon, I have to disassociate myself to some degree from the situation and/or the individual when my personal expectations of egalitarianism and fairness are not met. This now involves not taking their specific gravity of experience and associations as personal to myself - because it has nothing to do with me. This has helped a lot.

Some days it's hard being a hot-headed German-Scotch-Irishman and a Druid. Social grace isn't easy for a barbarian, but since I now represent an established Order, my own academic standing, and my own altruistic beliefs concerning evolution and the divinity inherent in humanity and all life, I've made a firm decision to grow up and try not to use my words as weapons. There can be no true glory if one lacks common courtesy and simple civility.

[childeofloki.livejournal.com]

That's interesting... I'm Asatruan, and the problem I've been encountering is that my gods are gods of action, as is my moral philosophy. So when things are settled with wise words, I am pleased, but when nothing is settled, I get this uneasy feeling that I should be pummeling someone.

[fox-bard.livejournal.com]

...but when nothing is settled, I get this uneasy feeling that I should be pummeling someone.

Ditto!

The main reason I will disassociate is to keep my inner berserk from gorging its fill of blood while I'm temporarily blinded by the rage. Because some individuals out there really deserve a pair of blood wings, particularly when they seriously threaten or hurt the people I love. In such times, a physical counter-attack, even with the risk of incarceration attached, is absolutely an acceptable option.

[childeofloki.livejournal.com]

I actually threatened my friend's boyfriend with that, just this weekend.
I told him that if he hurts her I would carve a blood eagle on his back, and that when I was finished with him, they would have to bury him in a grave marked "miscellaneous".
Then I very clinically went into a description of exactly how I would go about disabling his limbs so I could carve it.


I'm pretty sure I got my point across, and for his sake I hope he realizes that I am not joking, or exaggerating in any way.

[childeofloki.livejournal.com]

It depends on what made me angry.

[miriyasterling.livejournal.com]

It was the PIE!!!!

[childeofloki.livejournal.com]

SonofaBITCH!!

[miriyasterling.livejournal.com]

I am Scot-Irish we're hot tempered women. Quick to anger quick to calm...

[miintikwa.livejournal.com]

It depends. I have a short fuse when it comes to certain things (usually injustice/abuse issues) and then I'm over it. But I have a very long fuse and long anger when someone hurts my friends. I will likely never forgive that.

[heardthatnoise.livejournal.com]

I burn hot and cold. I temper myself. I push it down. I brood. I let things smolder. Then I try to figure out what's making me angry.

[smwright.livejournal.com]

A very long time.

[4kudzu.livejournal.com]

I blow up quick, but then I calm down long... hehe. Like a candle. :)

[empatia.livejournal.com]

At least two songs.

[castlelady.livejournal.com]

That depends on the situation and who is involved in it.

[photodiva02.livejournal.com]

Depends. Sometimes I can get over things quickly, other times...

[randorr.livejournal.com]

rarely more than a few seconds. However on the few occasions It does last a tad longer, then it is highly fiery and to the point

[babystar620.livejournal.com]

really short fuse and it dies out far too quickly :)

[eternalxwhisper.livejournal.com]

I can get quite angry very quickly depending on the situation. Emotional roller coaster alert! ;P You just don't know when I'm going to blow!