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I take part in a tournament every year in my society wherein I play multiple sports like Volleyball, Table Tennis, Badminton and more. I recently had a volleyball game, where I had an opponent with whom I have had a lot of fights in the past. A person who's shown no respect whatsoever to me, considered me as a liability to everything and has also hurt me a lot through his words.
So this person was my opponent in that volleyball game, he kept appealing to the referee saying I had committed multiple fouls and kept targeting me. My patience had reached my keep when I decided to step up and told him to stop targeting and that that the referee's decision was final. He insulted me by asking to me learn how to play the game first and then be worthy enough to talk to him. After I asked him to shut up, he lobbed a punch in my face, I went to retaliate but was pulled back, but he lodged a couple more punches to my head after which I wasn't able to do anything.
My parents got to know and had a word with him, but he kept arguing with my dad and my dad lost his cool and screamed at him. It turned into a big verbal fight and others had to intervene to stop the fight. Such was the audacity of this guy to argue with my dad who is a really really calm guy by nature.
I too have never gotten this angry at a person whom I thought to be a friend all these years, but had to step in this time around cause I was too tired of him insulting me.
Now, I have a Table tennis game against this dude, which I will win easily (cause he doesn't know to play well, just playing for the sake of playing). What I feel is I should not compromise for a mistake which was never mine, not bow down and lose my self-respect and just give a walkover. To show that I can take a stand for myself and not be shameless, all just for a win.
Again, I don't know what to do, should I play and forget all that has happened? Or not play and show that I value my self-respect more than a win in a game? Please help me out, what should I do?
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