I had dinner in Borough Park with my cousin on Thursday.
In Borough Park, most of the residents look like this:

My cousin looks something like this:

Anyways, we had just arrived at my cousin’s apartment, and he was gathering some papers from the back of his car, with his car door open like this:

when an elderly couple in an old car like this:

came and rolled right into his car door, bending it like this:

and my cousin - whooping, over nearly being ran over - looked like this:

At first I was like this:

because my cousin was not hurt, unlike my father who was hit by one of these:

8 weeks ago and broke this:

and some of these:

but thank G-d everyone, including my dad and my cousin, are alive and healthy. Which is why I looked like this:

But I couldn’t tell this to my cousin while his anger was boiling over due to the damage on his car. I couldn’t tell this to my angry cousin because Rabbi Shomin ben Elazar used to say:

Do not appease your fellow in the time of his anger, nor comfort him while his dead lies before him. Do not question him in the time of his vow. Do not try to see him in the time of his disgrace.¹

Yet the anger my cousin shot at the driver and that the driver flung back at my cousin was volatile like this:

And made one of them look like this:

and the other one looked like this:

and there was a whole lot of this:

which I think is really rooted in this:

but then a young Borough Park resident at the scene who looked like this:

remarked - “It’s never good when Jews fight - no matter what the situation.”

Yet the cancer called Anger only crept further down their throats, enslaving their tongues and lips to curses and disgraces that surely left their souls crying out from Heaven.

And the evil inclination within each of us is so sly, because after all of the toxins the evil inclination enticed my cousin to spew, he then proceed to entice my cousin to feel terribly sad and somewhat depressed after the fact.

But Rebbe Nachman zt”l says that we must every day - every moment! - begin from a new! Do not despair over the past! Make amends, yes. Fix what needs to be fixed, yes. But despair? No!!

That way, G-d willing, the world will look less like this:

and more like this: