Get A Grip

When is it ok to get emotional in public? When you win a Nobel Peace Prize or maybe during the photo op when you win big at the lottery game? Or is it perhaps possible that emotions are best left at home to be taken out whenever you are alone or with close family members who won't feel ackward as you bare all your innards. I am not talking about seething anger, an emotion not always welcome in the public arena but certainly understood if the provocation is proven to be top notch. This does not mean that you may respond in anger while operating a vehicle or piloting a plane although it does mean that sometimes in the workplace there are provocateurs who really do need a hefty dose of your pent up frustration (which only exisits because of them)to finally be released directly back at them in the form of 'put you in your place I won't take this anymore' controlled but devastating, feel great (to you) payback anger. Now that we've dealt with the anger let's look at the flip side... the crybaby who feels an innate need to let all his personal grief, guilt and any other manner of neuroses which had heretofore lain more or less dormant come bubbling to the surface in any public arena no matter how inappropriate the venue...This is the consummate emotional wreck who really has no business being in any public arenas whatsoever until intense therapy has taught him how to manage his many needs and moods without drawing the innocent into the fray of his web of hysteria or self-aggrandization. The crier has been known to elicit all manner of responses from people unexpectedly on the receiving end of this emotional roller coaster gone wildly out of control. In fact these overzealous kleenex addicts get better and better at 'pulling the wool etc" than a family pack of Australian sheep herders. We must be ever vigilant and never succumb to this well rehearsed camouflage. If you get a chance to say to one of these lost souls, "get a grip!" and they do, it will be a miracle. If the 'get a grip' advisory doesn't work, and if you care, get them to a good facility.