In the biblical story of Ishmael, the father of Islam, he and his mother are banished to the desert. His mother almost abandoned him as she couldn’t live knowing he might die of thirst. Then God opened her eyes and she saw a well of water which was there all along.

When you get worked up in a negative emotion, you might not see reality and react in a non-rational way to create a bad situation. Hopefully you can keep a “clear head” in stressful times and make decisions which won’t cause misfortune or unhappiness.