Seneca: Let us be free from this evil, let us clear our…

We often talk about managing anger as if it were a useful fire that simply needs a smaller flame. Seneca is more suspicious. Some habits do not become healthy through moderation because the habit itself keeps asking for another excuse. Resentment is like that. Feed it a little attention each day, rehearse the insult, check their social media, retell the story, and it grows roots. The work is not merely to avoid an outburst. It is to stop giving the grievance a home in your mind. That does not mean pretending harm never happened or declining appropriate boundaries. It means refusing to make bitterness your companion. Identify the small ritual that keeps an old anger alive, and skip it today. The freedom you want is not better revenge; it is needing none.