&*$@#%!

Damn, I feel pissed off today. Invisible cosmic forces seem to be working against me, and it's getting fucking old. Actually now that I think about it, some of the forces are decidedly non-cosmic and quite visible.

I used to think that of the seven deadly sins, Lust posed the greatest challenge to me because it spent the most time bouncing around in my head and influencing um, some of my behavior. Lately however, Lust has been taking a backseat to Wrath -- the same vice that got Brad Pitt into trouble in the movie Seven. Let's confirm my symptoms with Wikipedia:

Anger is an emotional response to a grievance. The grievance may appear to be real or imagined, it may have its roots in a past, present experience or it may be in anticipation of a future event. Anger is invariably based on the perception of threat or a perceived threat due to a conflict, injustice, negligence, humiliation and betrayal among others.

Hey, I know that guy!

Grievance: check.
Real or imagined: check.
Roots in past or present experience: check.
Perceived threat due to conflict, injustice, and/or betrayal among others: check.

Hmmm. Looks like I've got myself a classic case of the Angries. Anger is really not a very productive emotion though. It takes a lot of energy and ultimately casts a dark cloud over everything, even when things are obviously not as crappy as they seem. Let's see if I find a little perspective on the negative, ego-driven b.s. that is causing this feeling and channel it into something positive. I'm sure there is some prior transgression that I have to redress, or "life lesson" that I haven't learned yet, blah, blah, blah. Once I figure it out, the transitional fog will lift and things will be back to hunky-dorey.

Fucking karma.