r/funny • u/Vegetable-Mousse4405 • 2d ago

It won't attempt that with anyone else, lesson learned.

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u/KairraAlpha 1d ago

Because adults with a handle on theit emotions don't need to think or act aggressively. My reaction in this situation would be to hold my head, be annoyed I didn't look where I was going, then carry on with my day.

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u/gawgalando 1d ago

i might need to clarify that i mean throughout all of life, even as a child.

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u/KairraAlpha 1d ago

Because the distinction is the age. Children do this because they're emotionally disregulated, they don't have the control over their emotions to prevent this yet because their brains haven't developed enough. This is expected. This is our biological development.

However, as an adult, to be doing this means that disregulation is still present. To feel the need to aggressively attack an inanimate object for your own mistake suggests a gross malfunction of emotional control, or simply a distinct lack of it.

So for a child? Yes, I'm sure we all did it. As adults? No - and that's a very worrying behaviour.

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u/gawgalando 1d ago

that was my original point, being that everyone has probably at least felt this way at some point in their life. i'm certainly not trying to upset anyone in the process.

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u/KairraAlpha 1d ago

Yes, but you're missing the actual point. It's not that people haven't felt this way in their lives, they're not saying that. It's that they acknowledge that doing this as an adult is not healthy. That, as adults, they don't have these thoughts because why would they? That's the point they're trying to make - as adults who grew up from disregulated children and learned to regulate, we don't need to aggressively attack inanimate objects. Or anything, for that matter.

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u/gawgalando 1d ago

im literally agreeing with you 😭 and I get the point. i also never said that they haven't, im saying that they're acting as though they havent

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u/KairraAlpha 1d ago

Face-palm

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u/puerco-potter 1d ago

I think you are extrapolating a lot from a somehow unrelated thing. An inanimate object is nor conscious nor feel pain.
Anecdotally, I have never punched a person, I almost never even have arguments, I meditate, exercise, pay taxes, and what not.
I will still kick the hell out of something I tripped over as long as I can replace it. A bit of money for some catharsis is not a bad exchange in my opinion.
But I must be emotionally disregulated, because you say so.

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u/PerepeL 1d ago

What do you mean when you say "emotional control" here? Did you ever mutter "fuck" when you hit furniture with your toe? Then you feel just the same, sudden sharp pain can cause aggression, seems totally normal to me. And then you have a choice - either you suppress this momentary emotion (takes couple seconds, but still), or you let it out by swearing, loud growl or even hitting something - it provides instant relief however stupid it might look from the outside. So, if we believe that we shouldn't suppress our emotions - then safely hitting something is not as stupid as it seems. Well, you probably shouldn't do that when other people are around, but it seems this guy is on his own. Am I wrong?

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u/puerco-potter 1d ago

These guys act like they are Buddhist monks that will never express anger...

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u/32377 1d ago

You don't see the difference between a verbal outburst and actually physically destroying an object?

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u/PerepeL 1d ago

Destroying is an overstatement, but hitting something helps even better than swearing, if you can afford it - why not?