I always find it curious when I encounter a person who is holding onto Long Term Anger.  What is Long Term Anger? It is a person being mad at a someone for whatever unreasonable period of time that it may be—be that a week, a month, a year, or years.
 
Have you ever encountered someone like that? Someone who was mad a someone for an unreasonable about of time? Have you ever been mad at someone for an extended period of time?
 
We all feel anger. That’s a human condition. Some are better at letting go of anger than are others. For most, we get angry for a moment, then we slowly let it go.  
 
As we all understand, there are those momentary incidents of anger, like when someone cuts us off when we are driving, and stuff like that. Then, there are those times, when someone does something to us that really upsets us. For those situations we tend to hold onto that anger for a longer period of time. But, all that holding on does, is to hold us back.
 
I know in my own life, there have been a few people that I held anger at for an extended period of time. I’ve been cheated in business deals. I have had things stolen from my life. I’ve had people tell lies about me. I’ve been ripped off in the film business. …Just to name a few… For the people who did those things to me, it’s true, I was pissed for a time. But, I always knew that I could not let that situation or that person define me, and my next set of actions. Thus, every time any anger would arise in me, over what that person had chosen to do, I would catch myself and redirect my emotions.
 
I don’t think that too many people have held long-term ill will towards me. I mean, I have spent my entire life consciously trying to help people. Whether that was via Karma Yoga, teaching Yoga and/or the Martial Ats when I was young, all for free, onto trying to help people break into the Film Game later in my life, etc...
 
I’ve found, whenever someone got angry with me, it always seemed to be based in a misunderstanding more than anything I consciously did. As I am just not, and never have been, one of those people who sets out to take, steal from, disparage, or hurt anyone or anything in any way, shape, or form.
 
As the digital age came upon, I found myself at the center of the bullseyes a couple of times. People, who do not know me, never met me, or ever even communicated with me, displaying anger towards me due to something someone else said or proclaimed about me that was not true. I get it, I know that’s just the new method, used by some people, to get more clicks, likes, followers, and all that kind of stuff—attacking someone. Yeah, we can all say that is wrong, and they will eventually suffer the karma for what they’ve done. But, nonetheless, that seems to be, (at least to some), the name of the game anymore.    
 
I always find that the people who buy into that level of BS, and use it as a means to motivate anger within themselves, an interesting breed. I mean, sure anger sends all kinds of adrenaline throughout your mind and body. But, it’s not a good feeling. Why does anyone want to feel like that? Moreover, why do they wish to seek out life elements that has nothing to do with them, just to motivate that emotion?

And remember, there are some people who actually set about enacting anger in other people. They do this, I guess, because they get some level of self-empowerment from it.  Not good. But, that is the way it is.

Also, some people seek out a reason to be angry. They look for a reason to get mad at someone. Then, in some cases, they hold onto that anger for a very-very long period of time. Again, not good. But, that is the way it is.
 
I know the people I have encountered who follow the path of Long Tern Anger are always the ones who never find fulfillment in their life. The reason for that is obvious. They pursue and embody negativity, and from that they hold themselves back from Becoming. But, tell them that, and it will go to deaf ears.
 
Overall, the main thing in all of this to keep in mind, is that we need to be able to accept that everyone has flaws. Yes, some are much worse than others. But, in knowing this, we understand that we should never allow a flawed person to be able to take control over our feelings, our emotions, leading to our actions, and causing us to embellish their negative deed in any way. We must be more than that!
 
So, what can we learn from all of this? Do not allow any anger you feel, no matter what the cause, to take control over your life. Do not let it send you down a road of retribution or vengeance, as then, only your own karma and your own next stage of life will be ultimately affected. Mostly, be more than the person who causes anger to rise up in you.