Anger Reflection

Anger can be a destructor like none other. While we, as humans, need anger as a part of the human condition because of the protective system that it provides us with, thereby, shielding us from harm, too much of anger can land us to situations we otherwise would not want to see ourselves in.
As has been very rightly quoted by Louis L’Amour, “Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before – it takes something from him”.
The quote above summarizes in a nutshell how anger can be a destructive force, a force that can harm not only people around us but can harm us greatly too. In fact, history bears testimony to the fact that too much of anger has almost always led to the downfall of

One such happened incident while I was working prior to joining XLRI. The incident occurred at a time when I had just finished a year in the organization and was elated at that. I was working as an Assistant Systems Engineer and was responsible for all learning and development related activities of my team, which comprised of 13 individuals. The responsibility required me to co-ordinate with the Learning and Development team of the organization, the Learning and Development SPOC (Single Point of Contact) for my project and between the team members. The primary responsibility of the role was to ensure that the training and learning needs of the team members were taken care of and were aligned with the organizational requirements. This particular incident happened when my Team Lead was replaced by a new one. Before the arrival of the new lead, the team had expressed desire for having fortnightly hourly meeting where every team member would update everybody else of the work they were doing in the project and share with other team members any latest learning or technology or programming code used by them, which can be used by other team members too sometime in the future course or which might simply add to the existing knowledge of the team members. In order to get the initiative approved by the Learning and Development team of the organization, I had to put in several

While my Team Lead never mentioned the e-mail to me or sought any explanation for it either, every time I came face to face with him, the cold look I received was sufficient to explain the damage I had done to my reputation. There were no immediate repercussions but the fortnightly meetings were eventually stopped because my Team Lead had become even more against it and found ways to stall them. Also, I did receive a much lower than expected rating during the appraisal and was moved to another team.
The only silver lining in this whole episode was that I had learnt my lesson and a bitter one at that. Small, unresolved conflicts can often lead to much bigger problems. Anger can indeed leave its wielder less whole than he initially was and this I can say with my experience