Where Does Our Collective Anger Go?

I remember this song from back in the day…I think a lot of us are feeling angry right now, or maybe it’s frustration. Perhaps it’s also hurt, as well.

Or maybe they’re all the same on some level, in varying degrees. A therapist of mine years ago once said that anger/hurt are opposite sides of the same coin and I think she was right about that. It can be difficult to parse out “what” feeling is existing at a given time, especially when emotions are involved. How do we separate everything out into neat little parcels of emotion with a (pink) bow tied around it all? I don’t think we can.

So, where does this seemingly collective feeling of anger emanate from, then?

Is it from a sense of not being understood? Not feeling heard? This pandemic has changed us all fundamentally (or most of us, anyway).

Our society is in tatters, or at least it certainly “feels” that way. We’re told that everything is subjective and it’s true, to a point. But I can’t seem to shake this feeling that there’s a sense of outrage that permeates so much of everything in our world right now. That sense of outrage is justified for many things, quite rightly. And yet, ultimately, what saves us all in the end, if we only let it, is love. It seems such a simple concept, and yet also the one that perhaps alludes us the most. “How” does this…