Irritability is the flaw of character whereby people permit themselves to be unpleasant, curt and ill- mannered with others for no other reason than that they do not happen to be feeling just right. It differs from outbursts of anger in that the latter are usually a reaction to some real or fancied injury that has been inflicted by another. Irritability, on the other hand, may manifest itself when nothing has been said or done that could possibly be construed into an offense. When a weak character is in an irritable mood, it is impossible to say anything to him that would not occasion grumbling and unkindness.
There is no one who has not experienced the irritability of others, and every such experience should make one more determined not to permit it to appear in one’s own conduct.
Irritability signifies a lack of self-control, inability to subject one’s feelings to the demands of charity, woeful immaturity of character. It is not so much frayed nerves that causes irritability; it is the irritability that causes frayed nerves. One who is subject to being cross and unpleasant with others for no visible reason, needs to come face to face with the fact that he is thinking too much about himself. He is like a child who has not yet learned that his feelings are not the most important thing in the world.
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