Sticks and Stones: Bah Humbug
Whoever says sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt me.…obviously never got hit in the head with a dictionary full of words. People who intentionally hurt others through verbal abuse, have been diagnosis with a disease I call idiotitis. This causes the brain to shut down and the mouth to negatively keep talking. Thousands of bullies have been affected, possibly contagious. I was told the best defence is slap and run. Do you ever have one of those days, when you’re holding a stick and every bully looks like a pinata? Jokes! Well sort of….even the nicest people have their limits. They say it takes a million compliments to build a person up, but one insult to send it all crashing down. I, on the other hand, don’t care what people say about me, at least mosquitoes find me attractive. Truth be told, it takes practise and discipline to grow a thick skin. Apparently this was not always the case for me and words do hurt.
Sadly, I have been a victim of bullying, more than once. What I learned in the past is that bullies come in all shapes and sizes. From experience, an ideal bully hates nothing more than if their victim is not shaken by attempts of harassment and intimidation. A bully’s only reason to exist is to be unpleasantly mean. They do not understand the meaning of friendship nor do they think about those they are hurting. I experienced one of the worst forms of bullying, let’s call it “sneaky bullying.” Fortunately, my bully was loved by adults, including my parents, who were easily fooled by her false charms. She lashed out snakebites of venomous words that I dreaded and inflicted daily in school. I tried many times to avoid her, but that only worked for a while. My bully began to poke fun at everything about me, like my hair, what I wore, my Samoan, the things I love, the way I talked, and how I answered or asked questions in class. I told my friends and family, they offered some solutions like changing classes or telling the teacher, but even my teachers loved her. So I decided to attempt the impossible, I was going to fight fire with water. There was no way I was going to fall into a fire in order to avoid