When I grew up rage was violent, uncontrollable anger such as I described in my first emotion anger https://irenewaters19.com/?s=Anger Nowadays the Australian youth have a lot of rage on board. They go to rage parties where excessive drinking, drug taking or both render the participant unlikely to remember the previous night but for them rage is synonymous with enjoyment.
The word of course originates from rabies and I can see a resemblance to a rabid dog both in the person that is suffering this extreme anger or in the youth as they rage at a party. Mind you I have never seen a rabid dog so I could be corrected on this score.
These days it is also used to express a strong desire or passion such as in “a rage to live”. Or if you replace the a with a the it becomes a temporary enthusiasm for something such as fashion “It is all the rage to dress in knickerbockers.”
Any angry type rage is not pleasant to deal with and if someone flys into a rage it is frightening and on occasion dangerous if you are unexpectedly the brunt of it. Road rage can lead to knives being pulled and people being killed. The one punch givers I presume also have a lot of rage burning in them to walk up to unknown innocent people and give then one huge hit to the head often causing severe injury and death.
The most raging I do is raging against injustices and human rights abuses, land and climate issues. I will rant and rage in the form of protesting strongly in the form of letters and rallies. Thankfully, anger management is not a problem I have to deal with.
Reflections and Nightmares- Irene A Waters (writer and memoirist) 
Important post Irene.
It is sad, when people did not learn how to use their temper in a good way. Unfortunately a lot of adult people need to learn anger management caused the same.
I remember many years ago, when I became mad. Not to hurt my kids I went to the garden and used my power out there and in periods I had a very well kept garden 🙂
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Yes Irene, anger management is so important. I fear that because many young people constantly get their way and their is a policy of no punishment by parents that anger is becoming more of an issue in the world and anger management is very much needed. If only everyone had a garden. Cheers Irene
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You are right. There are many ways to raise kids and many parents are scared to say no.
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You are so right Irene, so many people seem to be so angry and full of rage these days. Excellent post as always.
My daughter tells me that on Tumblr, where she has a few blogs (role playing, perfect for Aspies!) there is so much anger towards others who don’t believe in the same things or like the same things. So much voice but not much listening.
I hope I haven’t missed too many of your posts, just beginning to catch up today. I hope too that you had a wonderful Easter. Looking forward to taking a few walks with you this week my friend, getting some exercise and catching up with you… 🙂 Love Sherri x
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Its going to be a good week with lots of fun walks and lots of listening over the coffee pot. Cheers Irene 🙂
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Yay, can’t wait… 🙂 x
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🙂
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I think the lack of face to face socialization in our kids’ lives leads to a lot of the negative behavior – bullying, rage, rudeness… in the digital world, there are no consequences. Your blog struck a chord!
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That’s a good point Noelle. I hadn’t thought of the digital world as being an agent in anger but I can see it could well be. Cheers Irene
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I’m witnessing rage more and more these days and that bothers me! I’ve always known that hormones in those teens and early 20’s, esp. men tends to move emotions overboard but I’m seeing rage in all ages – not sure if the anger was ever dealt with in their early years – very sad!
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Yes Sue, it does seem to be becoming more of an issue than it was in my youth or perhaps it is just being reported more but I do think it is lack of learning in the early years. Possibly lack of punishment. I think children’s rights have gone too far but few are prepared now to punish their children for anger and give them strategies to deal with it in a more positive fashion. I’m probably sounding like the old lady I am. Thanks for commenting. Cheers Irene
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Thanks for the emotionally honest and powerful writing.
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Your welcome. Glad you dropped by.
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Reblogged this on Writing Out Loud and commented:
A problem that needs attention and controls
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Thanks Bob. It does need attention and control starting early both at home and at school. Cheers Irene
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I guess it’s ‘all the rage’ to lose control and take no responsibility for your actions.
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Sadly I think for many this is true, no matter what kind of raging you do.
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