Finally, a good excuse to irately smash dishes against concrete walls – anger management!
Due to economic recession and rising unemployment, many workers in Tokyo have experienced built-up tensions and frustrations that are just begging for violent release. To offer a practical outlet for all this rage, a team of chiropractors dreamed up the idea of breaking dishes as a marketable form of stress-relief therapy.
The idea is simple: put a concrete slab in the back of a truck, sell crockery to stressed customers, provide them with protective gear, and then turn them loose inside the truck. Give the whole venture a name like “The Venting Place,” and you’re ready to go.
“To break something, as all of us know from experience, is something extremely exhilarating and it helps bring down pent-up anger,” said Katsuya Hara, team leader of The Venting Place. “We hope to become the new way businessmen and women relieve their stress.”
So, is The Venting Place effective? It certainly was for 35-year-old salesman Masaki Ogaware.
“Life is pretty complicated and there are a lot of things to worry about right now, so this was refreshing,” he said. “I now feel like I can start afresh again tomorrow.”
Ah, the profound refreshment of hurling breakable dishes at a wall and watching them shatter into a hundred pieces! It doesn’t get any better.
Brandt
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John Lee Smith
Expressing your anger, even against inanimate objects, doesn't make you less angry at all. In fact, it actually makes you want to get pi**ed off. Imagine if Bruce Banner walked around all day looking for an excuse to hulk-out, but replace the embarrassing shredded pants with friends and loved ones who are legitimately terrified every time his favorite sports team loses.
See, we humans have these things called "habits." When we do something, and it makes us feel good, we want to do it again… and more often. This is why you don't see a lot of Buddhist monks throwing bricks through storefront windows on their path to enlightenment and Lifetime original movies spend more on broken casserole dishes than on acting. The rush of anger is addictive as hell, and letting yourself lash out as a means to control your anger is like drinking to control your urge to drink.
And that's bad news, considering there are lots of situations where you don't have an inanimate object to take it out on. If a person gets entrenched in the habit of beating the living sh*t out of an inanimate object every time they get upset, heads are going to roll if they can't excuse themselves from a meeting to go chokeslam the tank on the break room water cooler.
Patrick
John Smith said: "Expressing your anger, even against inanimate objects, doesn't make you less angry at all. In fact, it actually makes you want to get pi**ed off. "
I disagree. We always need an outlet for our anger. It's a RELEASE. People have to take responsibility for their habits and addictive personality, and making the civil choices. It's wrong to think that the average person couldn't deal with releasing anger without making it too much of a habit.
Pamela
Thia is old news,but saying this,I love the idea and have been doing it for years.Threr is nothing like the tinkle of breaking glass to make a person feel better Old jelly jars thrown in the trashcan is a favorite of mine.It has saved many a person a thumping and is very safe.
Brandt
Habits aren't necessarily addictive, and they don't necessarily lead to higher levels of indulgence. Anger is a natural feeling, and naturally calls for release. The key is finding a good way to release it.
And smashing plates to relieve anger – which is pretty damn funny, if you ask me – is much better than holding anger inside and then blowing up all of a sudden. Different people have different struggles, and for some anger is not much of a problem. They can control it. But for those who get pissed off really easily, I'd rather see them take it out on inanimate objects than get physically violent.
Stephanie Van Orden
this is what I need! LOL
Laurie Green
Yes I have been known to also break a few plates too. Sadly…..
Laurie Green
Sorry you are having a bad day
Stephanie Van Orden
i choose to laugh so it’s all good! 🙂
Stephanie Van Orden
but thanks…..around here Fridays are always a bit hetic but today has a particular kick all it’s own! yehaw! LOL