A recollection of the days of being an awkward geek, to the rapid changing of trends allowing awkwardness and geeky-ness to become sexy and chic.
Monday, May 14, 2012
Bullied By The Bullied
It wasn't too often that I was actually bullied. Geeky as I may have been, I managed to only deal with a small amount of bullying. The odd thing about when I was bullied at all was that I wound up being bullied by the bullied. Let me explain...The very first bully I ever encountered was a kid who, after a couple of years of bullying me, wound up being the brunt of almost every Warren Snyder Elementary School bully's attacks. He was relentlessly bullied by kids all through grade school, middle school, and high school. If I am successfully making myself out to be geeky and awkward in your eyes from reading these posts, I assure you this kid could be so much more easily made to look that way. He was and still is the definition of geeky! And he fucking bullied ME!!! The next bully I encountered was, ::hangs head in shame::, a girl. Sure people say that in grade school when a girl tries to bully a boy it is because she likes him. Well whatever, that shit is bunk. She just bullied me is all, no affection involved in that sad story. From fifth grade on I never really had anymore bullies to speak of. Of course the occasional brush in with a known bully would happen and end quickly in a surrender, but no repeated offenses would occur. Though I know what it is like to be bullied, I can not relate to the unfortunate kids who deal with relentless bullying nearly every day of their lives. I feel terrible for every single one of them and wish for them to all realize that it WILL stop one day, even without them taking violent reprisal against their attackers. They will one day have a much better life, and very likely a more successful life than their attackers could wish for. Though I cannot fully relate to them, I can say at least I was a temporary source of relief of their frustrations during the years I was bullied by the bullied.
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