Do You remember your First Fist fight?

[Slim Jim]

It was like a scene from Fight Club. Only we were school children. It was outside. It was sunset. I had a disagreement with a friend. They swarmed around us. Like spectators ringside at a boxing event. It was really crazy. One minute, I'm in the street playing, next minute it's like some 10 year old Tyler Durden, has organized , a settlement to some dispute. Even picked the location. Which was a grassy area. I didn't want to fight. I think I just started jabbing, swinging, and it was stopped, when the kid I punched started crying. Like the incredible hulk, I think I must have taken a hit to the torso, and just kinda went all out, in a fit of anger.

 

[Raggamuffin]

Only ever had playfights with my brother, and the last one went beyond playful and I ended up really hurting him. As soon as it felt like it was an actual fight, I got the red mist and I beat the crap out of him until he was lying on the floor. Thing is, it was clear the fight was over long before I stopped.

He lay on the floor groaning, and I panicked, then ran off and locked myself in the bathroom and burst into tears. Stayed there for hours until my parents got home. I don't recall him telling my parents. It just remained unspoken of.

Never had a fight since. Probably a good thing, as I was quite worried how quickly I got carried away with my emotions.

I've said to my therapist a few times that I get it when people fly off the handle over trivial things. If you haven't stood up for yourself for a long time, and people continually overstep the boundaries - then I get why sometimes people snap. Like road rage, or some minor transgression that ends in violence.

As the media and justice system will say - there's no justification for it. But I think those moments are simply a release of a culmination of prolonged stress. So, whilst violence never solves anything - I think eventually everyone has a breaking point.

I recall a few kids organising fights after school. I watched a couple and it wasn't really a fight. No bruises or cuts etc. Just 2 people flailing about and not really attempting to hurt one another.

Ed

 

[Nick12]

nope i never hade a fist fight

 

[Wolfnox]

Sure. They started and knew Karate moves

 

[Slim Jim]

Wow...Nick..Nicky..Nicholas...bumping my random old thread.

Yeah depends on where you grew up. Some place are more violent. Nobody knows karate around here, maybe 'drunk-fu.'

Yeah Been threatened more time than actual fights. Better to diffuse a situation, rather than escalate to something stupid and end up hurting yourself , others, over nothing. Fighting is so childish and dumb.