Queens Jewish Link
Connecting the Queens Jewish Community 
People were put on the planet just to test your anger management skills these days. You’ve gone from paralyzing fear to flat out rage. Your neighbors and friends disagree with how you are handling just about everything. The leaders you used to believe in have let you down time and time again. What this country needs are more unemployed politicians. You’re even mad at yourself for taking everything so dang personally.
Hello. How are you? Better, now that you asked. Awww. How are you? “Well, I haven’t had my morning coffee yet and no one has gotten hurt. So I’d say: So far so good.” And how are you? Armed and ready. I was fine until you asked. Uh, oh.
Life can be brutal. Can you feel the pit in the bottom of your stomach? When your situation is difficult, every little thing feels immense and intimidating. For some, all seems lost right about now. Do pain and suffering have to be our destiny? Go right ahead and welcome whatever emotion comes forth. Trust me when I say that these feelings are not unique to you. You can’t always be your own hero or heroine, sweet friends. Do not become a ticking time bomb. Find someone you deeply trust and let it all out.
Do you feel stuck in a life you never truly dreamed about? Trust me, there is so much more to the book than the page you think you are stuck on. Do you still hold onto all your past mistakes, unable to truly let them go?
How did you decide whom to marry, where to live, or what career to choose? Was your mind churning with all kinds of thoughts and feelings about it? You know that a successful marriage depends on falling in love many times – always with the same person. But, hey, marriage is not just spiritual communion. It’s also remembering to take out the trash. Hint, hint.
Many of us have two moods these days: panic and worry about every little detail, or “It is what it is.” Speaking of which, there is no panic like trying to press “End Call” when you accidentally call someone. Can you relate? So why did the Mexican take his anti-anxiety medication? For his panic attack. Heh.
