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Bullying and harassment
CellarDweller:
--- Quote from: DavidInIndy on August 22, 2008, 11:26:56 pm ---Chuck, you're unfortunate experiences in school sound identical to mine. Everything you mentioned also happened to me. School, and especially high school was a terrible experience. I wouldn't repeat it for anything. I really do hope there is no such thing as reincarnation, because the idea of going through school again appalls me.
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I know what you mean, David. I've heard people say that they would love to go back and relive those days. I always tell people if they ask me that, I would never go back, you couldn't pay me enough for that.
CellarDweller:
--- Quote from: Kelda on August 23, 2008, 08:53:43 am ---But do you think that partly this made you the compassionate person you are today?
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That could be, Kelda, speaking for myself of course. I do believe that the experiences you have shape the person you become, and I've always sworn that I would never do to anyone else what was done to me.
Artiste:
CellarDweller and others:
Do you think that we tend to become an Ennis, instead of a Jack, because we, as gay men or women, have been bullied and harrassed because of our homosexual orientation??
May I ask !!
Au revoir,
hugs!
David In Indy:
--- Quote from: Kelda on August 23, 2008, 08:53:43 am ---Eesh David, you had it bad too...
God I got some cruel remarks but never ever tio that extent.
But do you think that partly this made you the compassionate person you are today?
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I'm not sure Kelda. For a long time I was quite shy, but over the years I've broken out of that mold. The thing I often wonder about is if any of those people who bullied me back in school now regret what they did. Does it haunt them now? Do they ever think about it? At all? Probably not.
This makes me think of that scene from the movie Flatliners, where Kevin Bacon is haunted by the memories of the little girl he tormented in grade school. He ends up apologizing to her, and she forgives him. He didn't do it willingly though. The memories started haunting him after his near death experience, or rather death experiments.
Nobody has ever looked me up though. No phone calls. No letters. No nothing. Like I said, I doubt they ever think about it, nor are they probably concerned about it in the least.
David In Indy:
--- Quote from: CellarDweller on August 23, 2008, 11:00:29 am ---
I know what you mean, David. I've heard people say that they would love to go back and relive those days. I always tell people if they ask me that, I would never go back, you couldn't pay me enough for that.
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If there is a Hell, that's probably what they do to us. Make us go back to school over and over again.
Yipes! >:(
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