Fight

A few weeks ago a fight broke out between a few boys. The fight developed because one of the boys, Romany, threw a volleyball behind him and it hit another kid in the head. The kid that got hit in the head, Bassam, turned around and assumed that it was a guy that he had been arguing with earlier, Abanoub Dief. Bassam yelled at Abanoub and said, "I'm going to tear this ball." Abanoub is a joker of sorts and said, "You can't tear it, not you and your whole family." Bassam's cousin and brother were nearby and heard this. In a few moments they went into a wild rage because they were so offended about the insult Abanoub had made on their family. First of all there was yelling and then eventually they started chasing after him. The fight got stopped when one of the seniors came out with a stick, yelling, and telling them to get in their room.

Things went back to normal when suddenly Bassam, his cousin, and brother came bursting out of the dorm with sticks and a five or six pound sharp rock. They started chasing after Abanoub as one of the staff members tried to get Abanoub to run away. To make a long story short this went on for a few minutes. They ended up pursuing and it took about 15 guys grabbing them and carrying them back to the dorm to keep them from assaulting Abanoub.

It's funny to me how things can escalate in the mind that anger takes over completely and all clear rationale goes out the door. I talked with Maged, Bassam's cousin later, and he openly admitted that he was so angry that he was planning on smashing Abanoub's head in with the large rock that he was carrying. Maged is a really good student and, for the most part, a good kid, but he just got carried away in his anger. The idea of how things would have been different if he hadn't been stopped is crazy to me. I'm just glad things were contained.

Anger is an interesting thing to me. It completely tears down any piece of rationale if it isn't controlled, there's some text in Proverbs that always pops up in my head when I'm finding myself getting really ticked, "A man who gives full vent to his anger is a fool."