If you are reading this, chances are you are a victim of bullying. For me, bullying became a serious problem when I started junior high school. It was a difficult time that got worse as the school year went on.
Boys and girls started to say stuff about me like I was some king of guy that was doing drugs, or had crushes on people. Guys used to say to me “Hey that girl likes you kiss her now.” I mean I guess they found out who she was or must have thought that I liked this girl in particular. But the truth was I hardly knew some of these girls they talked about.
Girls used to say stuff to me like “Kiss me babe.” Or tell other people rumours that I was some kind of guy that had a bunch of crushes on different girls. Truth was I did but I did not tell anyone about them. Only my parents knew who my crushes were.
I’m telling you, the bullying in grade 7 was very bad. There was a boy in my class that would always call me gay or make fun of the things I said. A group of girls took my water bottle and filled with some kind of bad chicken soup. Like it was rotten soup. But I soon found out they did it because of someone else. They took the bottle not knowing it was mine. But they did laugh at me because they still got their prank done.
In construction class I made a mistake and knocked over some boy’s project and broke it. They were all very mad at me and started to tease me through out the rest of the year. Look I didn’t know that the boy’s gift for someone was there right beside me. No one warned me or told me to be careful. Well I was always careful in construction class but too bad I broke it by mistake but they took it as a very bad thing. I hated them. Just wanted them all dead. I cannot tell you how those kids sickened me. I thought the world was over.
By the time the year was almost over, things got bad. I tried everything I could, but nothing seemed to help. Finally, when it became too much, I talked to my parents and they enrolled me in a new school. Things were much better there. I made a lot of friends and they told me how to get through things. To this day after graduating high school I am still in touch with those people. Once in a while I will think about what these bullies said to me but at the end of the day it does not matter any more.
It never did.