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Siiiiiiiiiigh, bullying...
12 years ago
I bet, based on that title, that you think this is gonna be something crying about the horrors of bullying...
Nooooooooooooope.
Sometime back I got a little fed up with all the 'ZOMG BULLYING IS BAAAAAD!!!' junk I kept seeing over on a certain site involving books and faces. My response was to post a little rant of my own about how I feel about bullying. This is that same post copied and pasted for FA to enjoy.
*ahem*
"Wow. I just keep seeing more and more people posting things about how bullying is bad, making fun of depressed people is bad, generally saying mean things is bad... To hell with that. I was bullied, treated like crap, and generally hated a good fifty percent of my teenage years and the people I saw along the way in them. I developed a stupidly over the top temper as a result of all that crap I went through, wound up getting arrested, going through a detention center, probation, and a nut house for kids, because of all the crap I went through.
And I wouldn't change a goddamn thing. I goddamn love myself, I'm fucking awesome. I am the sum of my life experiences, and yeah a lot of the stuff that made me what I am was crap. But last I checked you don't sprinkle sugar on your garden to grow the best plants, you cover them in manure.
So sure I still have a bit of a temper that I have to constantly keep in check. But all that crap I went through also pushed me to dabbling in all manner of crazy other stuff for my own amusement. So I'm a contortionist, a decent magician (could be better though, working on it), a pretty good rant comedian (much to the entertainment/regret of my friends when I get started), I rip pop cans open with my teeth for no other reason then the look on peoples faces when I do it, am currently learning to cook and bake, and still looking for even more things to add to my slowly growing list of things I do for shits and giggles.
So yeah, I'm not anti-bullying. Hell if anything I'm pro-bullying. Bullying made me what I am, it sucked but I can't argue with the results. Sure there's some things I could have done better along the way, but I'm happy with how things have gone so far."
I could probably say more, but what I said then still applies now.
Manure makes a far better flower then any amount of sugar ever could.
Nooooooooooooope.
Sometime back I got a little fed up with all the 'ZOMG BULLYING IS BAAAAAD!!!' junk I kept seeing over on a certain site involving books and faces. My response was to post a little rant of my own about how I feel about bullying. This is that same post copied and pasted for FA to enjoy.
*ahem*
"Wow. I just keep seeing more and more people posting things about how bullying is bad, making fun of depressed people is bad, generally saying mean things is bad... To hell with that. I was bullied, treated like crap, and generally hated a good fifty percent of my teenage years and the people I saw along the way in them. I developed a stupidly over the top temper as a result of all that crap I went through, wound up getting arrested, going through a detention center, probation, and a nut house for kids, because of all the crap I went through.
And I wouldn't change a goddamn thing. I goddamn love myself, I'm fucking awesome. I am the sum of my life experiences, and yeah a lot of the stuff that made me what I am was crap. But last I checked you don't sprinkle sugar on your garden to grow the best plants, you cover them in manure.
So sure I still have a bit of a temper that I have to constantly keep in check. But all that crap I went through also pushed me to dabbling in all manner of crazy other stuff for my own amusement. So I'm a contortionist, a decent magician (could be better though, working on it), a pretty good rant comedian (much to the entertainment/regret of my friends when I get started), I rip pop cans open with my teeth for no other reason then the look on peoples faces when I do it, am currently learning to cook and bake, and still looking for even more things to add to my slowly growing list of things I do for shits and giggles.
So yeah, I'm not anti-bullying. Hell if anything I'm pro-bullying. Bullying made me what I am, it sucked but I can't argue with the results. Sure there's some things I could have done better along the way, but I'm happy with how things have gone so far."
I could probably say more, but what I said then still applies now.
Manure makes a far better flower then any amount of sugar ever could.
zeddxvash
~zeddxvash
Thank you for that Net
zidders
~zidders
I dunno. I don't think 'pro bullying' is the right way to go about it. I was bullied a lot as a kid. Just because I turned out ok doesn't mean that parents shouldn't be more aware of what their kids are going through. I think at the very least people should have more compassion about it. I don't think saying 'It's just kids being kids' is the right attitude.
Donhoppity
~donhoppity
Yeah pretty much. Bullying teaches you a bunch of life lessons on dealing with people, that you won't get later on until your living in the ghetto or the like. Its an essential experience. But there is an upper limit to what should be...Like I dunno, serious intention death threats or the like (Jolly god times, that one).
becca
~becca
yeah but i didn't have the confidence because when i was a kid my self esteem was destroyed. I was a good kid and i believed what the kids were saying because that's how i was raised to listen to assholes
