Peace or violence, choose one
Ever since I was a kid, my dad has always warned us against trying to break up a fight. He would say that we should stay as far away as possible and instead allow other people break up the fight because according to him, he has seen crazy things happening to people who chose peace and tried to be the good person by trying to separate a fight.
He had even gone further to tell us stories of many people who had tried to break up fights and ended up with a much more worse injury than that of the two people who were actually fighting and the whole thing made sense to me (it still does), just that of recent I'm starting to have a rethink of the whole thing and I'm asking myself if I'm doing the right thing.
Late this evening, two girls at my hostel had engaged in a brawl, I had no idea what had caused the fight between both parties and I had no interest in finding out. I was a safe distance away but could still see the whole thing clearly. Strangely, I noticed something, none of the people down there attempted to break up the fight, not even the guys.
After exchanging some few blows that did little to no damage, a lady friend of both parties fighting had eventually stepped into the scene, jumping right in the middle of the whole thing. Both ladies still continued exchanging blows for some few seconds before eventually stepping back to take a breather, the lady at the middle now trying to get on her feet because she too had been at the receiving end of some of those blows.
Looking at the lady in the middle, I could hear my dad's voice reminding me of the many reasons why it's always advisable to stay away from scenes like that, but then looking at the ladies fighting made me ask this questions.. "What if one of them had knocked out the other person?" or "What if one of them had picked up a weapon and used it on the other person?".. "How did we plan on dealing with the huge amount of guilt that would had engulfed us if someone had lost their life in the process?"
This questions and many more crossed my mind as I watched both ladies continue to verbally abuse themselves downstairs. All of those thoughts made me ask myself, which is better, peace or violence?
Peace means you going to break up the fight and risk getting hurt in the process or you letting them fight it out, which obviously means violence.
I'm also puzzled man... If you go to separate the fight, you can be a victim, if you don't go, it looks like you're not a good person but on a long run, we can select the kind of fighting scene we want to come in. When it's brutal, I think there's nothing wrong from abstaining but if it is a minor one maybe between people we are a bit stronger than, we can come in. I will not try to separate a fight between people that are stronger than me, I stand a higher chance of getting injured...
Well I think your logic might work..
Your dad gave you the best advice and It's right in most of the cases. Whenever we stop them, they insist more on continuing the thing and the situation gets worse with time. So it's better to stay away from them.
It's better and also safer because a lot of people do get hurt when trying to break up a fight.
That's right, there are two types of people in this world, one who likes to fight and the other who just wants to live his life happily, so we all have to be like that person who works hard in his life. And he works hard day and night to be successful. He lives with laughter in his life, so this life is much better than a life of struggle.
True. Thank you for reading.
Most welcome dear.