Anger. That’s something that I know a little bit about. Generally speaking, wrath is concerned with a desire for vengeance against someone or something. It involves uncontrolled feelings of hatred. That all sounds a little bit extreme to me. The anger that I’m familiar with is a little more tame.

The corresponding virtue to wrath is patience. I’m much more familiar with a lack of patience. For some reason, my mind moves a million miles per second. I make decisions quickly. Tasks that I decide to focus on are completed very fast. I like things done that way — efficiently.  In my own mind, I’ve got the best way figured out to do just about anything.  Just ask me.  Your method may work, but it’s just not as good as mine.

Of course when I step back and think about all of this, it sounds ridiculous.  I’m not perfect.  I’m not the best at anything.  There are lots of people better at just about everything that I enjoy doing.  But when I get in one of those impatient, self-serving moods, I can get very frustrated and angry when things don’t go my way.

Fortunately, I’m becoming more aware of personality traits like this.  I’m becoming more and more patient as time goes by.  Trying to have complete control of everything, and then taking out frustration on loved ones, is definitely not the way to show your love.  And love is really what this life is, or should be, all about.