I Do Not Like Confrontation

So I am learning that of the many things I like in this world like my friends on twitter and jokes and pictures instead of writing 🦃💓🥰 there are also a number of things I do not like and I know that I must rise above these things if I am trying to live my best life but it is oh so very hard and one of the things I do not like at all is confrontation.

"What was that all about?" I said to Barry when I finally saw him today, licking himself up on the fencepost as if nothing had happened and he said to me "What was what all about?" and oh the nerve of him I thought.

I told him that I was speaking about his intro to me and how he suggested that I was trying to be a leader of the farmyard and that he would be a better leader and that what he did was undermine what we were trying to accomplish.

He went like this to me: pffffff.

He was a very dismissive cat and I did not know what to say so I calmed myself down (which I am very proud of) and I thought that I should maybe seek to understand instead of just assuming so instead I asked him a question.

"Why did you say what you said about leading the farm?"

And he stopped licking himself and he looked at me and, with very cold words, he said, "Because I want to be the one to lead it."

And my friends I do not care about leading this farmyard and all I care about is trying to get the animals to care about their own futures and their own fates and to understand that the humans eat the majority of us and they do not eat cats so how is Barry even the right animal to speak on that topic and I wanted to get into all of this with him but instead I knew I would not be able to keep my cool and so I just walked away.

I think it was the smartest move I could have done before I said something I was really going to regret. I need to think of my next words to Barry very carefully or this whole thing could get very much out of control.