Anger only clouds our judgment and makes things worse

The world presents us with endless reasons to be angry: broken systems, selfish leaders, rising costs, and cruelty everywhere, but anger only clouds our judgment and makes things worse. History shows that real change-makers, such as Lincoln, Gandhi, and King, chose restraint, sadness, courage, and love over rage, using calm resolve to steer through chaos. Stoics called this the “calm light of mild philosophy”: pausing before reacting, inserting reflection between stimulus and response, and meeting injustice with self-control instead of outrage. Today more than ever, we need that pause, that choice to breathe, to reflect, to act with clarity, because only then can we make things better.