A movie from the 70s that I really loved was Julia. There was a scene where Julia (Vanessa Redgrave) asks Lily (Jane Fonda) "Are you as angry now as you used to be." Lily confesses "Yes" indeed, she is still very angry. Julia responds with "I like your anger." And Lily says "You're the only one who does then."
I always wondered why this short scene resonated so much with me. I guess it touched on aspects of myself that I really didn't understand. It also gave me some false comfort - I thought that if someone like Lillian Hellman could claim and cultivate anger, then it must be OK.
But then this attitude never really worked out all that well. I'm glad I sought some techniques to deal with it. I guess I'm a bit of a closet Buddhist (I might post about that someday).
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A movie from the 70s that I really loved was Julia. There was a scene where Julia (Vanessa Redgrave) asks Lily (Jane Fonda) "Are you as angry now as you used to be." Lily confesses "Yes" indeed, she is still very angry. Julia responds with "I like your anger." And Lily says "You're the only one who does then."
I always wondered why this short scene resonated so much with me. I guess it touched on aspects of myself that I really didn't understand. It also gave me some false comfort - I thought that if someone like Lillian Hellman could claim and cultivate anger, then it must be OK.
But then this attitude never really worked out all that well. I'm glad I sought some techniques to deal with it. I guess I'm a bit of a closet Buddhist (I might post about that someday).