The upside to anger? Getting it out of your system. You got to express your anger. Then you have room for more positive things. If I hold something in a long time, and then I speak it, it’s amazing how the light shines so much brighter.

McEntire frames anger not as a virtue but as an emotion with a potential function: a signal that something needs to be named and addressed. The “upside” is catharsis—expressing anger in a timely, honest way prevents it from hardening into resentment or spilling out destructively later. Her metaphor of making “room” suggests emotional bandwidth: unspoken grievances occupy attention and energy that could otherwise support gratitude, creativity, or connection. The final image—light shining brighter after speaking—casts truth-telling as clarifying and liberating, implying that articulation can restore perspective and renew relationships, provided the expression is constructive rather than retaliatory.