Got in a fight today...am i wrong?

[citrusdreams]

I see where you're coming from. It feels like my blood is boiling when I hear stuff like that - whether the comment is made about dogs, chickens, or whatever. It's hard to hear that what is important to you is nothing to someone else - and to the extent that they'll make fun of you, just because it's important to you. And that's what it sounds like. It sounds like the kid when out of his way to be rude just to hurt you.

Try listening to that kind of talk when the person is totally clueless and actually means what they're saying. I had a young girl whine about her boyfriend's dog getting out and coming back home with a tick on his nose. She pitched a fit until the guy took the dog to the pound, where he will surely be euthanized. She emphatically said she didn't care. That dog had a tick on his nose and that boyfriend had to bring it to the pound. It was hard for me to contain myself. About the whole situation really. Not just about the cruel things said about the dog deserving to be dead because it had a tick on its nose, just the whole nonsense.

But as you get older, you learn to deal with these things. I don't think you were wrong to get upset over what was said to you. We are not robots. We have feelings and it's hard to control them when their trod on. And I can't advise you how you should have handled it because I wasn't there to see the interaction, but I can advise you to not bother with this person. It's not worth your time. Heartless people do not deserve your attention.

I think you both should have been reprimanded for arguing in school though. You shouldn't have been shouting, but he was guilty of antagonizing. But the only thing "wrong" was making yourself vunerable to a cruel person.

I'm sorry about your ducks

 

[usschicago1]

I am a high school student and one thing i learned it
NEVER TALK ABOUT CHICKENS (IN YOUR CASE DUCKS) IN SCHOOL. People nowadays dont understand about how attached people can get because theyve never had them. I am lucky to have soem friends that raise birds and that is who i talk about it too.

Also about the screaming, your classmates will never let you forgot that now: it is hard but try to be calm!

That is just from my esperience not to share that
sad but thrue

so to answer you question: Nobody was right: and nobody was wrong... But the other kid was a punk for saying that.

 

[Elite Silkies]

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I agree (kids are cruel these days) I try very hard to teach my children to respect others and treat them kind.

 

[raroo]

I was bullied too in school. Once you graduate and get on with your own life, you'll see how meaningless and irrelevant all the drama from school really is, and how all those people who were mean to you are about as important to your life as a piece of poop on the road.

I would go back and do school all over again knowing how little those people really and truly do matter. When you are an adult, everything that happened in school turns into one big ZERO. Try not to let it affect your life deeply. I blew up at school too a couple of times. Its not about needing to learn self control, its about being hounded with more stress than you feel you can take, and letting it out. Its not the end of the world, I doubt you have anger management issues but rather stress issues.

Filter out your stress and concentrate on what makes you happy. In your case it is your ducks. Keep on with that, and know that the rude people in your life don't matter and don't deserve your energy.

 

[TheDuckCrew]

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thank you so much

that actually made me cry some

 

[Goat_Walker]

Im so sorry you had to go through this. Ive gotten in fights at school over my ducks too. The principal , IMO, should have been more sympathetic. Dont even look at the guy tomorrow that made the comment, he cant understand how important ducks are to us. My ducks are my depression relievers. And I get very protective when people make serious comments about them. im used to dealing with people who say they are going to eat them or fry them but Im sure if someone had said my ducks were worthless i would have laid them out. Im bad about acting before thinking things through.

 

[raroo]

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thank you so much

that actually made me cry some