Anger isn’t always bad. Sometimes it’s the alarm that says a line of yours got stepped on.

Anger carries information before it carries anything else. The heat arrives because something you value has been crossed, and that signal is often more accurate than the reasoning you build afterwards. Treating it as automatically wrong means discarding the only alert that fired.

Next time it rises, ask what got crossed before you decide what to do. Name the line to yourself in one sentence. Then choose your response from that, calmly, rather than from the volume of the feeling.