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4/22/2014 1:56:40 AM
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Stories about being Bullied.

*THE POINT: If you have ever been bullied by somebody in school, please share if you would like to.* When I was in School, I was not a really sociable person. I was very shy, and kinda insecure about myself. Naturally I became a target for the narrow minded children of that time. Outside of the usual name calling, I was beaten, pushed down, de-humanized, and down right treated like an animal. When I was in 8th grade a kid walked up to me and just started punching me in the face. I don't know why to this day, it was horrifying watching a circle forming around you with about 30 other kids screaming, and laughing. It felt like being a pit with a giant spot light directly on you. And there is absolutely nothing that you can do to get out of it. On top of that, I was constantly told that I was worthless. I was nothing more than a waste of meat and I would always be that way. Now, I know that is not true--but at that time, when you're told that enough--you start to believe it. I dreaded going back to school, I looked for ANY excuse to stay home. I cried myself to sleep many nights, hoping and praying that it would all just go away. So that I could fade into obscurity, and recover what was left of my soul. But still, it came. And the more I stood by and did nothing, the worse it got. There were times where I fought back and won. I was proud of myself, but then it came right back again. My school could do nothing. All they could do was put them in suspension, or call their parents. But that just made things worse, either their parents whispering in their ear, or a misplaced sense of revenge cause them to lash back. ...By that time, I have had enough of it. I wanted it all to end in one fail swoop. When I was in 9th grade, I was planning to kill myself. I had it all planned out, I would leave a long note beside me, take lots of painkillers (or whatever there was) and just drift away overnight. There I was, seconds away from popping the first pill. Then something happened, everything around me faded and I saw something. It was like a voice in a cold silence and it spoke to me. It told me that "this is not how you will end. There is much more to life than what you're feeling now. You will go on, have a blessed life, you will have a family, a loving wife, children, and everything that you have experienced will have no hold over you anymore." I dont know why I believed it, but I did. I put those things away and believed it. ____________________________ Now here I am. Almost a decade later, I am graduating college, I am getting married this June to my absolute Best Friend ever! ...And absolutely NONE of the things that I have gone through have held me back once. I was so afraid of life here, that I was willing to cut it short. It was but a fragment of the life that I will live. If somebody tells you that you're nothing, they are wrong! You're a human, your life has meaning! Let NOBODY on this planet tell you otherwise. Because somebody out there loves you.

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  • Edited by II Smiggles II: 4/22/2014 9:16:09 PM
    To many peoples surprise I was heavily bullied as a kid. [spoiler] I have/had freckles and a girl would slap me on the bus for it. She'd tell me to fight back but I would pretend she didn't exist, crying while I tried to just read my book. With a marker she would play connect the dots on my face. Tell me I'm ugly and my voice was hideous. She would pull me hair, trip me, push me, and spit at me. The bus driver saw but never did anything and I was too terrified to snitch. Another girl who was at least twice my size would tell the teachers I harassed her. Called her names and the like. Obviously not true, I didn't even know her. Then after I got off the bus she would throw me down, rip off my back pack/take my notebook, hold it above my head and make me jump for it. When I would get high enough to touch it she would smash me in the face with it and gather all her groupies to leave me on the ground. Another was in my strings class. I was the new one there but excelled really quickly. The top player there didn't like that and would pick on me. She one day locked me in a room and shoved me into a book case which fell over on me. That was the first time I got in a fight (after class I approached her and, shaking in anger, called her a bitch). She grabbed me by my hair and punched me about six or seven times in my face. Was so shocked I didn't feel or do a thing. She got a three day suspension and I got a five day one, which made me miss the concert I practiced for religiously.[/spoiler] Edit: also knew some friends who were shot/stabbed and killed because of bullying

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