How do you react?

How do you react to the environment around you, especially that which gets to your nerves?

I have some friends who maintain a perpetual smile. It's astonishing.... One never even raised her voice. How does she maintain that external calmness and acceptance is a mistery for me. As for the internal feeling, I don't know. She has a rather high blood pressure, though. But perhaps it has more to do with her weight than her hidden emotion.
Such person would get approvals from most people. A smile is much much more better that a frown and definitely a far throw from a downright eruption of anger. Don't you think so?

Other simply clam up and be sour. This kind would be better left alone in their sourness or you are subject to acid spray. They won't throw anger at you, but gone are the sweet smile and warmth. If attitude can cut, theirs are like swiss-made stainless-steel knife: light, strong, and make clean cut. So clean you are hardly aware that you are bleeding. And the pain creeps to you slowly. Well, sometimes not so. Sometimes they become so sour you can taste it from afar. Just let them be is a very good and practical advise.

Then there's the silent type. No smile, no sourness, no nothing. Just an eerie silent that leaves you perplexed. Everything on the surface seems so still and smooth, but somehow you can just feel a hot lava inside. What to do with this kind? Act normally, but do not provoke. You don't know how or when that lava could erupt.

And there's my favorite type: the throw-at-your-face, full-blown anger. That's what I call 'honesty' is. You angry? Show it. Keep people off at a distance, 'less they want to get the impact of your wrath. I am like that.. hahahahaaa. Short-fused, big-bang, destructive, and total madness for several minutes. Deny me that, and that anger would burn like amber, slowly, for a long long time..... and it will burn big at the end. Sadly, this type receives the lowest approval in the social scale.

Anyway, different people, different mechanism. You choose what's best for you, and be ready for the consequences. You may want to be everybody's favorite and suffer inwardly (oh, bless those who truly are warm-hearted and never get angry...), or you may make everybody else suffer for the benefit of your mental health.

Adios!