Today i met a childhood friend that scammed me , did i do the right thing?
A while back i reconnected with this bitch , we ended up talking again because he had weed to sell and we knew eachother waaaaay back. He scammed me after giving him so many rides home (i live 38km away , i already had to spend money on gas just to get there and the budget was limited and he knew that) , i offered him packs of cigs when he said he didnt have any , i bought him cans of soda whenever we smoked together because i know how dry that makes your mouth , i gave him some of mine when he didn't have any weed , advice , fucking money even when i got low balled i was stupid enough to believe him that his dealer was to blame for not weighing it properly and he after getting him home one night i gave him the money for the stuff like i usually did , he got out of the car and one minute after he told me in a text "sorry for making your day worse thatn it already is but i scammed you :)" he told me to come next week and that he would give me twice the ammount (ofc i didnt fucking buy that) , today i was getting food with some friends and i just randomly saw him , i came uo behind him grabed him by the nape and told him to give me my money , he said he is broke and then i saw how panicked he was , his eyes were darting all over the fucking place and he was as red as a tomato , got all tense but didn't move a muscle , i pushed him towards the direction he was facing while calling him something i can't properly translate into english , i let him go , after all the fucking anger i had that day i just let him go because i pitied him , i feel like a fucking pussy and a dumbass. I know it's really subjective but it's eating me alive right now , should i be more brutal? I've been dealing with this type of shit everywhere , people just take advantage of me because i'm to "soft" , every time it makes me more and more bitter , makes me lose trust in the people around me because i have principles that the rest i think should have. Do you think what i did should make me feel bad about myself? I need some guideance i want to enjoy who i am.