Lord knows, there are plenty of good reasons to feel angry these days. What I find problematic isn’t so much that people feel angry, it’s that people frequently behave angrily without recognizing why they feel that way.

My friend’s baby was born a full two months premature after his wife had undergone ten rounds of IVF over eight years. Their son spent the first three months of his life in the NICU, unable to suck, swallow, or breathe on his own. Instead of happily cuddling and bonding with their baby, my friend and his wife spent many sleepless nights in the NICU watching helplessly as he lay in an incubator with tubes down his throat and up his nose and various doctors and nurses standing