Sometimes I respond with a very curt and dismissive tone... I know I do it. I know I feel justified in the moment. I know I feel bad later. I didn't know how to change it until ... I became more aware, not of it, but of me... of what is going on inside me... just before I do that.

It bubbled up, coming forth gutturally from the deep inside, filling up my emotions and swirling around so violently as to burst itself through, into my conscious space.