things i think i know about fighting

i know i suck at fighting. that's first and foremost. okay, i don't know that for sure... but it's most likely the safest of assumptions. i haven't been in a fight since the fifth grade. and even that fight was pretty uneventful. me and this other kid, mike, paced around each other. we were surrounded by kids from school. he took a swing at my ear and it hurt. i looked up and next thing i knew, my brother phil had jumped on his back.  we were fighting on some dude's front yard and it was at that moment that he came out of his house and chased us away.

so that's it. that's my fighting career pretty much. i'd say i'm 0-1, but my loss is a technicality. we never got to finish it. who knows what would've happened? sometimes i like to think that maybe i have this natural flair for fighting and if i was given the proper chance, i would've kicked mike's ass in fifth grade.

but i don't like fighting. i'm usually the dude who tries to break it up. which is good and leads me to my next point about fighting. i'm convinced you can stop almost all fights from happening. the only fights you can't stop are the ones that start with a cheap shot.... and that's not fair cuz no one sees that coming. it's not fair to the dude you hit and it's not fair to people like me who try to play peace keeper. but otherwise, most fights start with two dudes (or females) talking shit to each other. if you can get a few people in between them who are really committed to not seeing them fight, then you can usually have them talk trash to one another till they exhaust themselves and lose the passion they had to kick one another's asses.

on to the next point- don't judge people by how they look. just the other night i saw 2 people kick 4 people's asses. i tell no lie. and if you lined the 6 combatants up, you'd probably pick the 4 dudes dressed in your typical urban/thuggish attire to be able to handle the other 2, one with long hair and glasses, the other with a fancy looking hat (sorry billy, love your fancy hats, please don't kick my ass). and if you would've picked those 4, you would've been very wrong that night.

whatever it is that inspires people to fight seems like a big deal at the moment. but most of the time, if you allow yourself to sleep on it, whatever it is you found yourself fighting over will seem like way less of a big deal. i'm not saying all reasons to fight are stupid or unimportant.... there's exceptions to this rule i suppose... i'm speaking more about the majority of the time, and from what i have seen with my own eyes.

i don't think fighting is cool. but at the same time, i also think there should be more fighting. every time i hear about a stabbing or a shooting, i think to myself, how much better would it be if they just threw fists at each other instead? fighting's a shitty thing to do, but if you compare it to certain things, it doesn't seem so bad. i'd love to root for world peace... but i don't think it's very likely in my lifetime. so if i can trade down some of the more violent stuff that happens for fistfights, i'd be all for it.

anyways, if you can and when in doubt, hug it out bitches. real men give hugs. increase the peace. i'm out.