Giving anger the silent treatment MANOJ NAIR,

Business Editor

Covid-19 has changed a lot of things around, including the rules on social niceties. Post-Covid, any conversation would somehow linger around my kilos. The other favourite chat starter would be along the lines of how Covid symptoms can have a deleterious effect on anyone with excess weight. This is where I feel the first ripples of anger that seems to course up from the depths I never ever explored.

Anger to me is about bottling it all in. Loudness is something I dread. Putting an ALL-CAP in my emails is about the loudest I can be. The best option would be to keep all of those fleeting bouts of anger close to the chest, so to speak. Never let the other person know about the intensely uncharitable thoughts I have going on at that moment. The mind wanders to far better things, like the riff from a cherished album.