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Most likely, you haven't been careful of your situation and mindful of your surroundings, avoided dangerous places or people, and/or worked hard or smart enough to defuse and de-escalate situations of rising emotions, tensions, and territoriality (either your own or of those around you). Now, a lot of "you failed to do X!" discussions seem to assume ...

To be a little bit Zen: So, I'm in a fight. What have I failed to do? You've failed to end the fight. There could be nothing that you've failed to do. People are like animals, one day you can end up in a fight that you had nothing to do with. To absolutely remove all chances of having a fight you would have to live your life in a vastly different way, ...

I think it really just comes down to one thing. If you made a mistake, the mistake is that you were looking for a fight. It's an understandable tendency among martial artists, especially those that train for the "mean streets," after all; what's the point of training to fight and defend yourself in the mean streets if you don't ever actually use your ...