(Posting early for a placeholder with some of the basic concept(s). Will come back to elaborate and polish up.)

It’s easy to be patient when things are chill. But what about when you’ve hardly had any sleep, you feel sick, your spouse is upset, and the baby is crying, causing a visceral reaction within you? Difficulty hits differently in those times. It’s easy to theologize about how we should act in those situations, or fantasize about how we would act in those situaitons, but in the heat/pressure of the moment, its a whole different reality. There’s an intense feeling that is very difficult to shake.

I wonder how many people in prison owe it to the actions taken in a moment of intense visceral feelings like this? I wonder how many broken relationships? How many life-long regrets?