Chester Joins Anti-Bullying Campaign

Not necessarily. I think it just made me a better person.

Read : I wouldn't fight back. Now I would.

 

I don't think being kicked around and bullied itself makes you a stronger person. But the process of dealing with it and getting over it makes you stronger and a little wiser. So as long as you don't end up permanently traumatized for life or incapitated, and you learn how to deal with your experiences, you grow a little stronger. Whats that saying? "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger."

A lot of people at some point in their lives is going to get bullied, some more than others (so much the better that Chester is doing this). In the fifth grade, I was new and extremely shy, and some kids took advantage of this; they contstatly teased me, spread gossip and even followed me all the way home, pushing and taunting me the entire way, laughing when I grew angry and yelled at them to leave me alone. I was too proud to share my experiences with my family members and get help, but I did feel weak at that point. In fact, I was at my weakest at that point.

I never did learn to stand up for myself and fight aggresively with smart comebacks and fists like those relatively street-smart kids who taunted me. Instead, I learned to ignore the gossip and taunting. Then I learned to acknowledge them and laugh them off for their pettiness. As for the bullies who pushed me home, I never yelled at them to leave me alone anymore. I never ignored them either, because that just provoked them more. Instead, I think I really disarmed them when I smiled at them one day and said "hi" when they approached me at school. I remember one of them, atleast, was pretty surprised. I no longer reacted to their presence as if they had bullied me--scared or angry or apprehensive. I just shrugged them off as people who didn't intimidate me, neither offending them or giving them any satisfaction while doing that.

Eventually, the bullying became so minimal that it was just petty whispering amongst a few girls. This alone would have been able to upset me when I first came to this school, but after learning to deal with what I had been through, they didn't phase me at all, nor would any kind of vicious talk about me today. I admit I'm pretty proud of it, too. Personally, going through the bullying process--rocovery and all--really has made me a stronger person. And for me, its not hard to let out about this at all, because I'm no longer ashamed of it.

 

Not necessarily. I think it just made me a better person.

Read : I wouldn't fight back. Now I would. [/b][/quote]
I don't feel any emotions really (except anger and weakness), that's why you see me using lots of smilies...it made me fake.

It's so easy laughing than going home and crying, for me that is.

If you met me I'm pretty normal, I don't like showing this side of me.

*Deletes 5,555,780 smilies*

@ J Money: I agree, GO DEREK. I personally admire you now

 

I think it's really cool that Chester is helping in going against bullying. I was sometimes bullied, but I learned to accept what people say and ignored them. I wouldn't let them destroy me.