the “normal” world and I are living in enmity
Does this sound familiar to anyone?
I think there are a lot of us that can relate at least a little bit to the first couple of paragraphs in this essay from slacktiverse; the experience of being bullied, the advice from authority figures that isn’t particularly helpful…
And, of course, the fact that when we become adults, some people simply don’t grow out of it.
I’m glad there all these anti-bullying initiatives out there right now bringing attention to the problem, though I wonder how effective they’ll ever end up being, given that so much of our culture is actually built around the assumption that bullying behavior is perfectly acceptable in a wide variety of contexts?
Didn’t really mean to bring anyone down there. Read the essay, although it ends with questions, it comes from the position of someone who dealt with some pretty harsh circumstances, and came out of it okay, if a little scarred by the experience; in it’s way, it’s actually kind of uplifting.
