Poll of the Day > I just had to stop myself from going on an angry tirade against this cousin I...

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Actually like

The fucker had the audacity to say that the shooting in Vegas was a "set up" and a government distraction. And I initially wrote him a pretty long message (in Microsoft word!) about how he was a massive fucking piece of shit and a bigger moron and how what he said was INCREDIBLY offense to literally hundreds of people and how his status alone was indicative of all the knocks to his head he got as a kid because no person who wasn't borderline (insert offensive word here) would think that what he said wasn't fucking stupid.

The initial draft even had a line from me questioning his parenting skills and how I lamented that his son had a lowlife loser of a father and deserved better than a man who thought punching things and playing CoD all day was an acceptable or worthy way to live.

I deleted that. But I'm actually ashamed I wrote all that out in the first place.

I was... actually really upset. Like... I slammed my fingers against my keyboard as I typed out that initial message and started sweating as I did it.

I think... I think I have really bad anger issues. I never knew that part of me existed, but I've been getting like this more and more often. And I always thought I was more emotionally stable than that. I already lashed out at a person less than a week ago irl too because of a giant slight they handed my way. Am I just going off the rails now? That scares me.

What does that even say about me?
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No balls you won't send it

Lol

I won't send it.

Because I actually sort of like this cousin.
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Wow opinions sure piss you off huh?
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>_>
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Meh, seems fine to me. It's unreasonable to ask you to not have an emotional reaction, so long as you don't impose it on others and are capable of self-criticizing and realizing whether acting out is the proper course of action. Which I think you got.

It's actually pretty common advice to "write an angry letter and don't send it."
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This story would've been more interesting had you sent it.