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I have had my fare share of bullies. When
I was in the seventh grade I was picked on a lot. I was called
so many rude names, and it really began to hurt my feelings
and my self esteem. The kids at my school were never nice
to anyone except the other mean people that were in their
certain groups. I actually was never apart of this group.
As time went on the bullies seemed to pick
on more and more people, not just myself. I began to become
friends with a lot more people, and I guess you can say that
I was in the more "popular" group. I had many friends,
not just a group of people, I hung out with everyone. Some
of the girls that I hung out with on a regular basis got picked
on a lot. This made me upset, and I decided to do something
about it. I went to the counselor and asked if there was anything
that I could do to stop all of this. She told me that there
was nothing that I could do that wouldnt get me into trouble.
I slowly walked out of her office, and it hit me! I could
treat them with a lot of respect and maybe, just maybe they
would have the heart to change.
The next day I told my friends about it
and they thought that I was crazy! Why would I want to be
nice to someone who was totally mean to me?! So my friends
did the normal thing, and just walked away when the mean people
started in on them. I just sat there, and listened then asked
them if they wanted to come with me to find my friends. They
laughed at me and called me a loser. I felt like a loser too,
but I thought that if I kept trying to get them to change
that they actually would do it! At lunch we sat down at the
table in the middle of the cafeteria. The bullies walked by
us, looked at us, laughed, and walked along.
About a week later I was at my locker when
someone walked up behind me and said "hey Katie".
I turned around to find one of the bullies standing there
with a piece of paper. I looked at her, smiled, and took the
paper. I opened it, and it said in BIG bold letters "Im
really sorry for everything. You and everyone you hang out
with are so nice, and we are so mean to you guys. Can you
forgive me?!" I was in shock by now! My plan actually
worked. I showed my girls the letter that she wrote me, and
they all decided to invite her to lunch with us. We invited
her, and she sat with us, and explained why they always bully
everyone. She said it was because they felt like they werent
as good as us or something.
This gave all of us another outlook on why
people act the way that they do. From that day on the "bullies"
sat with us, and became really close friends of ours. They
didnt pick on anyone else, instead they became the victims
of bullies, and they finally saw what it does to peoples self
esteems, and images. Im still friends with all of those girls
today, and I feel that somehow I helped influence them in
a better way. I showed them that bullying isint the right
thing, and that life can actually be fun in a positive way
if thats how you make it!
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