I used to be a tough guy. I
wouldn’t walk away from an argument or a fist fight. I would stand my ground in
the face of the devil himself. I thought
that was a show of strength.
Then you grow up and you learn
that that’s not how you show strength. You
show strength by being tough enough to walk away as soon as you see it’s all
pointless nonsense.
The other guy will probably be
glad that you did too. When I was a
young man we had a saying on the streets “One guy was scared to death and the
other one was damn glad of it”
Now there are times when you do
have to fight the battle.
Why? Because the good Lord, in
all his wisdom, put a lot of dumb people on earth at the same time and
sometimes you just plain have to fight. But first walk away.(See example below)
