Let’s be honest, we’ve all had that moment when your group project partner hasn’t opened the shared doc since 2023, or when your best friend borrows your charger and returns a paperclip and you suddenly understand every villain origin story ever. Society says, “Deep breaths, meditation, and fresh lavender candles”. The world wants us to be serene yogis sipping herbal tea while the Wi-Fi on life support gives up on you, right before submitting an assignment at 11:58pm. But deep down, you know what you really want to do is throw your phone out the window and maybe the router with it.

Here’s a crazy thought: what if anger isn’t the villain? What if it’s just the very confused, loud-mouthed hero we’ve been ignoring? And sure, it can be a bit dramatic, like when your laptop updates right before your presentation; but sometimes drama gets things moving.  It’s like an emotional smoke alarm. You wouldn’t silence the fire alarm and go, “It’s fine, maybe the house wants to burn down.”

The truth is, everyone gets mad; from the chillest monk (they just get angry in Sanskrit) to the guy who designed autocorrect. Pretending otherwise just makes it worse. Studies even say that people who express anger constructively tend to handle stress well and are more goal-focused and assertive (So technically, yelling at your laptop is character development). Suppressing and bottling up anger, on the other hand, just turns you into a walking pressure cooker with autoplay-ads rage issues. So, maybe the next time you’re furious that your lab partner ghosted you (again), it’s fine to feel that spark. Just… maybe don’t send a 2 a.m. rage paragraph.

Anger isn’t insanity; it’s insight in disguise. It tells you what matters, what’s unfair, and what needs to change. Anger is meant to be expressed, it means you care enough to react, to resist, to refuse nonsense. Being calm all the time isn’t maturity. It’s emotional Botox.

So no, you’re not mad. You’re just human. Beautifully, dramatically, Wi-Fi-rage-level human.