Control RAGE

I have been struggling with writing up this blog since last year because it is a very sensitive issue. So I will start with this what is RAGE/ANGER? Rage means a violent uncontrollable anger or a vehement desire or passion. Anger means a strong feeling of annoyance, displeasure, or hostility. Up until when I wrote this blog I never knew there was a positive aspect of RAGE. Most people passionate about their profession, career or life itself could actually be tagged as having RAGE??? Which I have never considered before. Well for me this is actually an amazing discovery.

This blog is focused on the negative bit of RAGE and ANGER. I met several situations that made me extremely mad this week and to be honest I had every right to 'exhibit RAGE towards those situations'. I learnt a bit later in my life that flaring up doesn't help the situation. It would only leave the individuals badly hurt. To be able to control your rage, you will need help. I got my help from my saviour who loved me so deeply that he said I could lay my burdens for He cares. With that help, I found practical ways of controlling ANGER. One of the best ways is actively listening and been slow to speak. A lot of reaction/chemicals are released when you are outrageously anger and it would be very easy to make hurtful comments that can never be taken back. People have lost friendship, relationships and ever marriages because they were too quick to release those words backed up with so RAGE/ANGER. Another practical way would be having a grateful attitude towards the situation. I will explain that with a scenario that happened to me. I was so tried after a long journey and on arriving I discovered that my luggage were left behind. I was extremely mad as I began to imagine staying without my luggage for days. The luggage arrived some days later only to find out that one box was badly damaged. That had me on gear 5 mode of anger lol. I was ready to huff and puff like a wolf. I went to the front desk to make a complaint and I was told that there was nothing that could have been done except the items inside the box were damaged. I was just mute because I realised that people go through worse situations than I did with my luggage. What if some of my items were damage or worse missing. What would I have done? That where gratitude kicked in. I felt so much peace when I started giving thanks to God. The RAGE evaporated like a C02 gas and it was replaced by N20 (this is a chemistry joke... if you understand put your hands in the air and wave it like you just don't care lol).

Have you noticed that you can get the word RAGE from ANGER but a single letter is missing and that is N. For me N means No or Not which is a continuous reminder not to get angry. If I don't get angry then there is no way I would get to the level of uncontrollable anger. That way I have controlled RAGE. 

My gratitude song for the year 

YOU COVERED ME BY DR VENON 

Signing out, 

Xinyang. 

THE ARTIST EYE

Typing this blog as I'm coughing seriously but no bother I believe healing is mine. Nothing would stop my normal activities. So the popular saying viewing the world through an artist eye caught my fancy two days ago and I realised this was linked to my very first attempt to crystallise a boot.

This gist is long overdue as I promised in one of my previous blog to talk about being a geneticist and also being a creative shoe customiser. My love for shoes have been evident since my early teenage years but I never knew that one day I would develop a skill from been a 'shoe lover'. I basically woke up one morning and starting looking at shoes differently. I asked myself what if I tweak it a little bit. My brain was ignited with so much passion but then I met a very big limitation, I couldn't draw to save a life. Gradually I started giving up because in my head I lacked the 'artist eye'. I was never good at drawing and did my best to stay out of Fine Arts after my junior year in secondary school. I had to look at the definition of an artist and here's what I saw "An artist is a person young or old with a gift to see the world discovered and undiscovered in different ways". So basically everyone is an artist only if you believe you have the capacity to see things differently. Seeing life generally from a different 'angle', and not thinking about issues having only one solution means you have 'the artist eye'.

Discovering this was like finding a treasure. I felt like Jack Sparrow (lol). So I started thinking of other solutions to my drawing issues. I discovered it. I wrote out the details of the pattern I wanted on the shoes and BAM, the issue was resolved!!! It's been working ever since maybe some day I would have another solution but for now I would stick with this one. My first boot 'creation' was inspired by genetics. Generally I believed that a course like genetics and art/designing could never mix. I proved my beliefs wrong by customising 'Part of Darwin evolutionarily tree on my boots'. This might not make sense at all to most people but all I'm trying to say is that having the artist eye could be life changing (you might want to look up darwin evolutionarily tree and promise me not to sleep after 5 minutes lol). Maybe someday when I have my shoe line I would have the full tree done on shoes or something better.

Gold glitter darwinian boots

Gold glitter darwinian boots

To see the world with the kind of clarity that belongs to the inner artist (finding beauty in things or situations that are naturally considered ugly), is one characteristic we as humans should yearn for. Think about how different this world would be if everyone had the artist eye.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Inside all of us is an inner artist. This artist is either dormant or active within us... Depending on how we choose to view the world. 

Happy new 2016

HAPPY NEW YEAR. WELCOME TO 2016. I'M SO GLAD WE MADE IT. LAST YEAR WAS AMAZING BUT THIS YEAR WOULD BE GREATER FILLED WITH PEACE AND PROGRESS. REMEMBER TO MAKE LASTING MEMORIES THIS YEAR. LEARN THE ACT OF GRATITUDE (TO GOD AND TO OTHER PEOPLE). BE THANKFUL EVEN FOR THINGS THAT SEEM INSIGNIFICANT. REMEMBER THE THANKSGIVING JAR CHALLENGE? IF YOU'VE FORGOTTEN HERE'S A REFRESHER (Thanksgiving jar). 

IT CAN ONLY GET BETTER THIS YEAR. ONCE AGAIN HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM CHIARISWORLD.