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Have you ever been bullied or have bullied
someone else? I have seen a lot of people bulling
and being bulled in High School. I myself have also been bullied.
One time this kid was being really mean.
He would always push me, call me names, and always insult
me. He would be unkind to me daily without fail. He would
call me some names that would hurt really bad and was embarrassing,
and it was hard for me to forget those names. The really sad
thing was I didn’t know why he would always pick on me
I had never done anything to him before. I ‘am not sure
if he did it just because he was one of the shortest persons
in my grade or what the reason was but I do know that the
bulling made me feel really sad and depressed, and not very
good about myself. He would do it in front of my friends and
other people at school in the halls.
However, I just couldn’t let him keep
bulling me. So I had to do something but what? I kept thinking
and thinking of what to do. I couldn’t be mean back to
him because that would make me no better than him. I definitely
did not want to stoop down to his level. All that would do
is make me a bully also and that is exactly what I was trying
to get rid of. So how do you overcome bulling by not being
a bully? I thought about this for a long time. Then it hit
me with great excitement. Kindness, all I need to do is be
kind!
Even though it might not work I was going
to try it anyway. My plan was to kill him with kindness. So
instead of trying to avoid him I just acted like he was my
friend. Whenever I would see him I would always compliment
him and I would always say Hi and treat him nicely. At first
the process was slow because he would still make fun of me
and be rude but I at least felt better about myself. Then
after a month it started to work but not quite how I expected
because it was the people around him that started to make
the change. His friends would always give him a hard time
for being mean to me because I was always friendly to all
of them and nice and they said he was unkind for no reason.
After about a month he was never mean to me again and his
friends stopped giving him a hard time too.
Although we never became friends we
also never said bad things about each other and he to started
to say hi when he saw me at school. I feel that although he
was mean to me in the beginning in the end I had been so kind
that not only did I feel better about myself, he felt good
about himself too. Therefore he didn’t have to degrade
other people to make him feel good about himself. I learned
that having a good character about you and showing respect
for others regardless of the situation is really cool!
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