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Stop Complaining and do Something About it.

If you go back a mere two hundred years, the chances are that most people reading this blog in the UK would be working 14 hours a day in shocking conditions for a wage that barely met the cost of living, and when I say living, a more accurate description would be existing. The poor were poor, and the wealthy were wealthy, it was just the way things were, and there was nothing that the poor could do about it. There were no mass education systems, and no opportunities to better yourself. Other than hard labour in the fields, or in a factory, the only other option was the military, which would often mean spending years away from your family, and an almost inevitable death on foreign soil. If you were not born into wealth, you would never be wealthy.  Though Britain was technically a constitutional monarchy, it was arguably not a true democracy. Only a select few could vote, and those who could were pressured, or threatened into voting to maintain the status quo. Those who attempted reform

Anger: The Self-Serving Monster

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  “You cannot control other people’s actions towards you, but you can choose how to react.” Human emotions are a complex thing, sometimes they hard to read, and at other times they are obvious. We all have them and some of us are better at controlling or hiding them than others. When it comes to reading emotions the levels of ability can vary as well. Some people can walk into a room and pick up on the mood straight away, while others walk in and say completely inappropriate things, making the situation worse because they have completely failed to pick up on people’s emotions. It is far easier with people we know, for obvious reasons, as you will pick up on traits, and get a good idea as to what is normal. For example, it is easier to notice when a close family member is behaving unusually, because you are with them most of the time, and you know what normal looks like. Some people, however, just have a knack for picking up on people’s emotions, even when they meet them for the fir