Frustration.

Frustration is a curious plant.

It springs up when the seedlings of Indignation, Irritation, Perturbation, and Impatience are thrown together into a soil rich with unwelcome factors.

One type of soil is when whatever is going on sucks terribly, but you are in no position to do anything about it. Another type is when someone is getting on your nerves (and blissfully ignorant of what a dangerous state they are in) but you have to mask your negative feelings with professionalism and basic courtesy. Yet another type is when you have done all you can to change a situation, but you have come to the end of the road, with your hands tied and stuck inbetween a rock and a hard place.

It is a combustive mix, creating in you an emotion so strong that you have the desire to pull your hair out, or scream out loud, or box somebody - just to release it.

Once it is there, however, you need a strong, metal shovel of Willpower to dig it out.

With some, the plant grows slowly but with deep roots, getting fertilizer from each little frustration and every bad day till it mutates into Resentment. With others, the plant grows fast and furious in a few minutes, but with shallow roots. A downpour of Tears or the warming kiss of the sun through Loved ones and Friends uproots the plant and tosses it into the Trashbag of Forgiveness.

It would be unreasonable, no matter how much we may wish it to be so, to believe that we can avoid such an unpleasant weed from taking root, brief or lasting, in our garden of Life. After all, we are human and there are too many varying factors in every day that can change at any split second to create the worst or the best of days.

Perhaps then, it would be fitting to take away with us that quote that has been a comfort to so many: "To err is human; to forgive is divine."

**She finds it strange that the strongest emotions wring out the deepest inspirations**