Early man to older man

I have been reading (for a year at least?) Wendell Berry's "The Need to be Whole".  I read this passage the other morning:

I am unsure how much I have felt of the settled and sustained hatred of the feuding families of old, or of the haters of "the deep state" or "the new Confederacy," but when I was young and could spare the energy I felt plenty of personal dislike and anger, which I enjoyed very much. I learned eventually that such emotions use up a lot of energy and so are weakening. They also are powerfully distracting. They distort one's sense of what is real and necessary and valuable.

This was clearly me. I was full of anger and energy "fighting" the left when I was young - and I enjoyed it. But it was weakening and a bad use of my energy - which I needed to be a good husband and father.

Oremus pro invicem!