What is your way of coping with bullying? Well mine for starters was listening to stand up comedy and watching other comedy shows like The Simpsons. I would listen to stand up funny comedians like Gabriel “Fluffy” Iglesias and the late great Richard Pryor. I also like to listen to some classic singers like Michael Bolton. I like to play their old records on my record player when ever I get overwhelmed and stressed. When I watch the record spin round and round I find it some what enchanting to see the record move and
Well, there are a tone of other strategies that I did throughout my life. The main one was talking to my parents and learning from what they went through in their own bullying experience. Plus in multiple different cases parents are there to help you understand and learn how to get through.
Along the way I also did some research to hear what other victims of bullying went through and how they dealt with it. Unfortunately in some cases it did not end good at all. But there were some happy endings.
My close friend was bullied very badly but she got over it by talking to her mother and close friends. She and I had different experiences but in the end ours were both pretty bad. We both talked about our experiences together throughout our high school years. In the process the two of us learned the different ways of coping. What I learned from her is to always talk to your parents and if the school authorities are not doing a great job at all then just leave it to the family. That is what my close friend did. I got lucky to have good school authorities. She and I have had completely different experiences but at the same time we both learned the most important thing in life. You parents are there to talk to when you have issues such as bullying. Plus the other friends that I made there some of them did not go through bullying. I guess you can say that they got lucky.
One friend wanted to give me advice but she did not know because she was not bullied every before in her life. Most of her friends were not bullied before. So they all got lucky. They were still very cool to hang out with all the time. But school always came first before friends and I understand that. In the case of school there are always going to be friends that have to do school first. So I was on my own. Sometimes the teachers were busy too. But luckily not the school’s counsellor. She and I would talk things over and always finish with long deep breaths that always got me started for the day. I guess I need to start doing more deep breaths every day. It might help me with some stress through out life.
When I got bullied, the response was a huge out pouring of love and support from my family. Including old teachers that were close to me. One of those teachers was a close one that I have known since grad 2. She told me about friendship hands. It was a very great technique that I like to use with my mother to this day after 12 years.