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Fights Are Pointless
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I believe that fights are pointless. How often do people get in fights? A LOT. Fights usually don’t get you anywhere. When you are in a fight you get angry and have hatred.
Once I got in a fight with two of my close friends. They were both mad at me. That day they talked to me at the same time online so I kind of saw it coming. This fight lasted for about a week and a half. They both accused me of starting a rumor about both of them. The main thing that kept our fight going is that we all had different view of what happened. During this fight we ignored each other. It was very hard because we used to talk and laugh all the time. When we were mad at each other we didn’t sit next to each other during lunch, when we past each other in the hallways we didn’t even look at each other. All I was thinking of is id they just forgave me our fight can end and things will go back to normal. It didn’t make us like each other more, when it was over it didn’t make us hate each other. It was just there. It was so pointless because it just made us not like each other for a while. Now we are still friends and nothing changed between us. We still laugh and talk, we still sit next to each other in lunch, we say hi to each other in the hallways.
In conclusion, I believe that fights are pointless because even though I am still a kid I have gone through some pointless fights just like everyone else. The main reason I believe in this is because fights can break up the best of friends. It changes you when you don’t have the person you always talk to with you. Fights get people very mad and they tell other people secrets about somebody else. It also affects the way people think of you. Therefore, I am proud to say that I think fights are pointless. Others people’s fights are pointless, my fights are pointless.
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