a good read on anger.

http://www.desiringgod.org/blog/posts/what-our-anger-is-telling-us

"We’ll find ourselves getting annoyed at the simplest, most harmless things — the things that really shouldn’t make us mad. Keller explains,

There’s nothing wrong with being ticked — getting angry to a degree — if somebody slights your reputation, but why are you ten times — a hundred times — more angry about it than some horrible violent injustice being done to people in another part of the world?
Do you know why? . . . Because . . . if what you’re really looking to for your significance and security is people’s approval or a good reputation or status or something like that, then when anything gets between you and the thing you have to have, you become implacably angry. You have to have it. You’re over the top. You can’t shrug it off.

If we find ourselves angry about getting snubbed in social media, or being cut off in traffic, or going unrecognized for work, or having an idea shut down, or feeling under-appreciated by our spouse — the problem might be that we love ourselves too much."

When I think about it, when I get angry/frustrated/annoyed sometimes, yeah...it's because I blow up the situation. Either I felt I was wronged, it wasn't how I wanted things to be, or I did/said something that was really bad. But like what the above quote says...why am I 100 times more angry about it than other injustice that is occurring somewhere else in the world? When you put your anger into perspective, I'm sure that it feels like you're just getting angry over such a small thing. And in terms of putting things into perspective, I like how Piper wrote about the 3 steps out of anger. For the first one, it's to analyze your anger and he writes that most often than not you'll find yourself embarrassed because you're defending your ego, pride and self-esteem. Haah, the first thing that popped in my mind - that is so true!!! So yes, I will need to work on this: 

"The obvious solution to disordered love is ordered love. But we can’t flip a switch for that. We can’t just stop loving one object wrongly to start loving the most lovable object rightly — that is, unless we’re strengthened by the Spirit to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge (Ephesians 3:14–19).
When our eyes are opened to see and savor Jesus (2 Corinthians 4:6), when we’re overcome by his grace (2 Corinthians 8:8–9), then we’re led to love him more than anything — and so increasingly care about the things that matter, and grow in not becoming angry when we shouldn’t be."

 :)