How to Be in Control When You feel Like Bursting

There are a lot of situations in our lives that put our temper into test.

As I was working on our school yearbook, I requested my staff to look for missing materials and then try checking them against those profiles already encoded. He did the sorting and encoding the whole day, but then all of a sudden it could not be saved in any flash disk. "How sad," I sighed.

Then, in the summary report encoded about the lacking materials, I noticed that there were still so many missing profiles of graduates.  To top it all, I had to send them messages via email to submit their personal information and photos.

I have been working for the same yearbook for almost 2 years now and still the collection of materials is very very slow.

In my desperation, I wanted to really shout at the top of my voice, I wanted to put all the nasty words in the graduates' face book walls just for me to force them to submit.  But I couldn't do it, because I have a name to protect and besides I am in a Catholic school and a teacher at that who is supposed to be a model of modesty, respect and all that good virtues.  Sometimes, I get so fed up trying to please every body.  But then again, I said to myself, every thing will come to pass.  I will be able to accomplish it any way.  I should not fret, and say nasty words because I know that whatever I have already said can no longer be unsaid.  Whatever hurts I caused through my words are irreversible.

With these insights, I learned to tame my tongue. So, every time, I feel like cursing any one, shouting at them, hurling them all the negative words I could ever say, I just stop, count from 1 to 10, and pray hard to control my emotion, my anger.

Through the years, I have mastered this technique.  It only takes the will and strong faith in God to really be in control amidst negative circumstances that we shall find ourselves in.