Today started off like any other Saturday. Woke up, read the different food choices on the SELF’s Drop10 Diet, went to the gym, ate lunch, worked, ate dinner, and was excited to go out with my best friend tonight. After dinner, I went out to see a couple of friends. By the time I came back to my dorm, I was angry. Actually no, angry would be an understatement. I was beyond pissed off. To be simply honest, if I had messed around with gamma radiation before this I would have turned big and green. Yup, I would have turned into HULK-ETTE!
Now let me just explain something to you. I am NOT an angry person. In fact I am a rather nice, funny, hyper person. I am the exact opposite of an angry person. Now, if you do manage to get me angry, stay far far away from me. If you do or say something I don’t like when I am angry I will flip out. I can and will be the very definition of an angry black woman. If I had been at home I would hide away in my room, listening to music until I calmed down. But since I’m at school and in the vicinity of a lot of people I knew I couldn’t just wait, I had to force myself to calm.
I did what any other collegiette would do. I cried (I cry when I get angry), screamed (into my pillow of course, can’t have people thinking I’m nuts), and said mean things about the girl I was angry at. Nothing seemed to work. I was still angry and it had been at least half an hour since I left that place.
I wasn’t sure what I was going to do until I had a random thought: why not work out?
It was amazing! Instead of running like I did this morning, I decided to do abs. I have the NIKE Training Club app and there’s an ab workout that I absolutely love to do but I’m not that great at it. Working out while angry is now my favorite thing to do. I had so much anger that I was just blasting through my workout. I normally have to pause the app to get a breather or have to go slow. This time I went fast and I was so angry that time seemed to fly by. I went the whole way through without needing a break. I was so proud of myself that I kind of just stopped being angry.
I am no longer angry and I got a great workout in. BOO-YAH! Now I’m kind of just chilling out on my bed, drinking ZICO coconut water and surfing the web.
So the next time you’re feeling angry try working out. I think maybe being super happy or hyper might work as well. The next time I get sad I’ll work out and see if that works too.
xoxo,
Danielle
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