life is too short to carry around anger

[mtgoat911]

well it seems that my children have upset the neighbors by picking pumpkins out of their garden, our property manager sent us an email about it, i wish the neighbor would have came to me with this problem, the neighbor also told the manager that our kids were on the roof, the manager threatened to sue us for any leaks this winter, i called the manager to let her know that my son did get on the roof to help me pull a cable wire up there that had fallen down into a garden area, and that i would not enter into an agreement to pay for a leaky roof that has obviously leaked before we moved in, the good new is that a family that used to rent this house is in my homeschool co-op, and has told me about the roof leaking and pipe busting, so that covers me leagly , we also payed a $5000 deposit, which was outrageous but we liked the house,  i did have to call that neigbor before i could go on with my day, i was blunt as always but i had no anger toward her, i appoligized for the garden and let her know why my son was on the roof, i believe that medhelp has helped me control my anger, in the beggining it seemed like i was always into drama or angry over something someone had posted, recently within the past few months i have noticed that i am happier, therefor allowing others to be who they are, i also make an effort to post topics that deal with solutions rather than debates, its strange where i learn llessons like this, there is no doubt 5 yrs ago i would have done everything i could to upset that neighbor, sometimes payback is not really going after other people but forcing yourself to deal with anger.

[abel04]

i feel like anger is the main symptom of whatever my problems are; and i've been told anger is depression turned inward....but it seems more than that......the rage element, icky got to change.  it's hard but also really easy.
anbel

[drifter0213]

you are managing your anger