I agree that being angry is a waste of time. I have also come to understand that anger with another is actually anger at a denied trait in ourselves.

Now if I feel angry which hardly ever happens now, I do two things. I ask myself where in my life am I doing the same thing and I tap on it, which almost immediately releases the anger and brings me back to balance with a new insight and more understanding of the other.

I have found over time that the more I do this, the less anything or anyone bothers me.

1) TV was just 3 Black & White channels
2) Coke came in a bottle, not on a mirror. Crush, Tab, Tang were the alternatives
3) African-Americans called themselves “negroes” and the woman who lived next door said her son wouldn’t go to my 6th birthday party because I had black friends who were there.
4) My father looked down on the Beatles, and now as a father myself, I’m trying to keep an open mind about my son’s hip hop (not to my liking)
5) The cord on the kitchen phone would always get tangled and you’d have to unwind it from time to time.
6) Noodle Roni was a special treat
7) Rich kids has a Polaroid camera, we’d take the film from our family Brownie down to the drug store to get developed and get the pictures back 1-2 weeks later
A great time to grow up
–Patrick