One of the most euphoric things that a person can do is crash out. Crashing out (or exploding, or any other slang term that older generations of people have used to describe this behavior) refers to the act of showing your anger and frustration to the object of the anger and frustration.
Personally, I make it a policy to do my best to not crash out as often as possible, especially against people, because it’s my personal belief that most people don’t deserve the crash-out moment.
Crashing out can come in many forms. I have seen it manifest in the form of a radical change to a person’s life, like trying to start a new fitness regimen purely out of spite. But the primary way that people crash out is by yelling at a person.
Usually, the person that is the victim of a crash-out did something that was really minor that just set off the crash-out-ee. More often than not, the person who gets crashed out on was not the cause for the buildup of the crash-out.
The crash-out comes in two phases: first, the buildup, where the person who crashes out just bottles up all of their frustrations with life, all of the little annoyances that you don’t think add up but add up at an alarming rate. The second phase is the explosion; this is the self-explanatory phase where the bottle shatters, making a mess for all those in proximity.
The second phase of a crash-out can last for a long time, and the mess can be widespread. For instance, the movie “Falling Down” is just one big, violent crash-out. The art of crashing out is something that nobody has studied yet, but I think such study is warranted because of the simultaneous feeling of destruction and euphoria brought about by the destructive actions/words.
