How Important is Keeping Your Cool?
By SirenOnFire
@JeeyanDee (2692)
September 9, 2017 12:17am CST
It cannot be denied nor prevented that there are sometimes people or events that would make us lose our patience. How do you keep yourself from bursting in anger and how important do you think it is for someone to be level headed no matter the situation?
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@JeeyanDee (2692)
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9 Sep 17
Hahaha. I agree! I have done quite a few times too. If it doesn't work, I remove myself from the situation to be able to think clearer.
@rosedust82 (2066)
• Philippines
9 Sep 17
I'm usually level headed and the peace maker in the group. This is true especially when I'm at work. People ask me how I can be so calm when they're just about to blow up with anger. I tell them I think it's because I stretch my infinite patience even more.They laugh whenever I say that. I tell them that nothing good happens when both of you are angry. It just makes matters worse. So I am usually the designated person to patch up issues among my admins. I do get angry and when I do, they know very well that it's not a good thing.
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@JeeyanDee (2692)
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11 Sep 17
@rosedust82 I totally get what you mean. I have experienced that same reaction from friends and colleagues whenever I get upset and burst in anger. I usually have great control over my emotions, but if things go over my limit, I could get a little psycho too.
@toniganzon (72281)
• Philippines
9 Sep 17
I"ve burst out in anger several times and I wish I didn't at all. It's very important to keep our cool or we won't be able to think straight. When we burst out of anger, we say things we don't mean sometimes and regret it in the end.
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@JeeyanDee (2692)
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9 Sep 17
Yes I agree! I have said this so many times, that no decisions should be made in extreme anger nor happiness. Decisions made this way will most likely cause people to regret making them.
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@JustBhem (70555)
• Davao, Philippines
9 Sep 17
@JeeyanDee
Exactly. I get easily annoyed. You know how Dialysis patient is. They become more moody.
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@JeeyanDee (2692)
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9 Sep 17
@vsai2008 Have you ever completely lost your cool and said things that you've eventually regretted?
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@augusta123 (6649)
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9 Sep 17
I totally move away and press the ignore button.it will save me from hurting anyone
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@JeeyanDee (2692)
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9 Sep 17
That is one good way of doing it. Has there been a point when you go too made and said things that you shouldn't have?
@allen0187 (58582)
• Philippines
10 Sep 17
It is important to keep one's cool. Remember that life is made up of 10% that happens to us and 90% of how we react to these events. If we react to everything that happens to us, we would be miserable.
I do a five-second check, if what happened to me will not be important in the next five minutes, five hours, five days, five months, or five years, then I do not give it much time and attention.
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@allen0187 (58582)
• Philippines
16 Sep 17
@JeeyanDee something that I thought about but most likely inspired by something that I read.
@JeeyanDee (2692)
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11 Sep 17
Wow, that five second check is actually really good. Did you make this stuff yourself or have you read it somewhere?
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@Shiva49 (26684)
• Singapore
10 Sep 17
@JeeyanDee Agreed, but hat I had in mind was I tend to lose my cool when others take advantage of me - siva
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@JeeyanDee (2692)
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9 Sep 17
Yes I agree. Keeping your cool and allowing others to take advantage of you are two different matters.
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@JeeyanDee (2692)
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11 Sep 17
@Shiva49 Yes of course. No should allow themselves to be taken advantage of others.
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@YrNemo (20255)
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9 Sep 17
I know the feeling very well, being a hot tempered person . To cool myself down, I often think of the past times when I got mad and told people off, only to regret later. With that thought, I often managed to cool myself down sufficiently enough... just enough.... 
. To cool myself down, I often think of the past times when I got mad and told people off, only to regret later. With that thought, I often managed to cool myself down sufficiently enough... just enough.... 1 person likes this
@JeeyanDee (2692)
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9 Sep 17
I agree! I always think of this whenever I get to the point of really bursting in anger, that no decisions must be made in extreme anger and happiness, because you'll most likely regret it afterwards when you regain your cool.
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@mildredtabitha (16126)
• Nairobi, Kenya
9 Sep 17
I mostly keep quiet or avoid the person or such situations
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@JeeyanDee (2692)
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9 Sep 17
Hmmm. How about if people would insult you? How do you manage to keep your cool then?
@JeeyanDee (2692)
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11 Sep 17
@mildredtabitha Yes it never is. I guess it's really important to voice out when people has offended or insulted you, because if not, then the'll think it's ok and you accept what they said or did to you.
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@mildredtabitha (16126)
• Nairobi, Kenya
9 Sep 17
@JeeyanDee the last time it happened I wasn't calm. I said what was on my mind and left. I never returned insults. I guess it is not easy to stay quiet when people cross boundaries
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