Apr 4 2012

Bullies

I got in to a conversation with someone a short time ago about bullies.  It was interesting because she told me that she was a bully when she was younger and I told her that I was bullied.  I was lucky with regards to my bullies.  I wasn’t heavily tormented like some are, I was pushed around and threatened because I was a geek and week but never beaten up.  I remember all my bullies and sometimes I wonder if they remember me.  I wonder what I would say to any of them if I met them now.  I’m not sure to be honest.  I sometimes do internet searches for them but I always come up with nothing.

This friend of mine said she does indeed remember being a bully and those she pushed around.  She admitted that she wouldn’t know what to say if she was confronted with those from her past.  I told her that they probably haven’t forgotten her and chances are still hold on to some resentment towards her.  I’d be lying if I said I didn’t.  In fact, I secretly hope they’re unsuccessful in what ever they’re doing now.  Does that make me a bad person to wish that?

So now the big question, where you bullied when you where younger?  What would you say to those people now.  Or maybe you where a bully and if so how do you feel about who you where (assuming that you no longer bully people that is).