A lesson learnt

Last month, something bad occured on an afternoon. Although I cannot remember exactly when, but I still can remember it was on a Wednesday and I nearly got into a fight with someone.

That person whom I almost exchange blows with...turns out to be a close friend of mine. He...I shall NOT mention his name...had indeed pissed me off until I found it hard to control my temper. In fact, I really DON'T WANNA fight or quarrel with him..as he had done me a great favour 2 years back. If he didn't help me, I might not know how to handle this particular problem. Therefore, for that, I still feel thankful for the great help he gave.

It all began this early year, when I was in the same school project group with him. I had no idea what the hell is wrong with him...every time during project meeting, he will yell vulgarities at us, including me. Either that, he will scold us harshly. The reasons he raise his voice is because we didn't do a good job in the project. However, I feel that it WASN'T our fault as we had indeed tried our best and he has NO rights to shout at us like that.

Shouting at us is bad enough. Therefore, yelling vulgar words is worse.

The last straw was on that Wednesday afternoon, he raised his voice at me in the lecture theatre (LT). I got so agitated I gave him a kick outside the LT. I confronted him, asking him what is his problem, then I proceeded to challenge him to fight with me outside the campus. Indeed, I had 'burst' and his attitude was really getting on my nerve.

However, some of our classmates were at the scene and they stopped the altercation. After that, I walked away, full of rage. I decided to let the issue rest after a while. He did apologised. He has been my friend for 3 years. The quarrels made nearly destroyed the friendship.

My point is...no matter how long a friendship has been existing...it can be ruined by things like that. Besides, to establish a cement-like friendship is never easy. Time, patience and interactions are required.

From this awful experience, I had learnt that controlling my temper is essential in such situations. If I really bashed him up, then it WOULDN'T be very right of me either....although that dude was indeed in the WRONG to display such attitude.

In addition, I strongly believe that a person would be unwilling to hit someone whom had been very helpful towards him.