Have you realized that bullying can take on all forms? No? Maybe you're fat and there's some skinny people picking on you because your fat. Maybe you're skinny and people of average weight are picking on you because your skinny. Maybe you have red hair and people "pick on a ginger"or you speak with some form of accent foreign to the geographical region. Maybe there is some physical appearance that you have, handicapped or otherwise, that is not the norm of the immediate "community". Maybe you act differently, or think differently, or maybe you're not the same religious faith as someone else. Bullying can take many different forms and it spans many different walks of life. Even into your own family. One of your children has a problem with the other and they pester the crap out of them until they get what they want. Maybe a husband isn't getting some form of satisfaction that he needs and it isn't always about sex, so he beats the crap out of his wife on a regular basis. Or it could be the other way around. It's been known that the wife will do the same thing. Maybe, after your children grow up and you don't do what they ask you to do, therefore you don't get to see your grandchildren. Really? Seriously? Bullying can span all walks of life even into religion. Yes, my faithful, Christian followers! Even into religion.
Take my particular case for instance. In school, I didn't think like others and I didn't act like others, so I only had a few friends. I didn't play sports like others, therefore, I was deemed uncoordinated. Because I was uncoordinated, Guitar Playing Man proceeded to attack me one day while playing basketball. And we were supposed to be friends. After that, we were still friends, but the "feeling" just wasn't the same. The many years difference between me and my brother made life difficult for me as well. He was older. His physique was larger, therefore, he was "smarter". Really? In what way? So far, he has been able to destroy the relationship I used to have with my daughter. He wasn't too compliant at my father's funeral either. And my mother's funeral services? He did have the courtesy to tell me she passed, but he never told me she was so ill that she had to be hospitalized. I never got to speak with my mother before she died, to his satisfaction. He told me there would be funeral services for her after her body had been cremated. That was a year ago. I'm still waiting for those funeral services to happen. Just how long does it take to cremate a body anyway? I know with my mother-in-law, it only took about three months. If I were stopped on the side of the road somewhere and I was on fire, and if my brother were just happening to be driving by, he would only stop long enough to throw gasoline on me just to watch me burn faster.
I didn't have the same religious faith as others I had gone to school with. The more I looked at my own faith and began to realize how hypocritical it was, then I began to ask questions. When I asked questions, I received a brow beating and if it wasn't that, then I was preached to by those of other faiths until I couldn't be preached to anymore, and then they preached to me some more. When I didn't succumb to believing , then I was ostracized.
I had friend that would treat me a certain way that I felt was against the grain of the way I wanted to be treated or spoken to. When I confronted them with what they were doing or saying, then they felt as though I were bullying them because I was expressing my feelings to them. Because most of them were no longer allowed to treat me this way or that, they then became no longer my friends. As the old saying goes, "if it doesn't feel good, don't do it". Well, the treatment of me didn't feel good and I didn't like it, so I would no longer allow it to happen. Since I would not allow it to happen anymore, the friends I do have are few, but at least we care about each other and we care for each other, and we are "there" for each other.
Bullying can take on many different faces, many different places. Some white people feel that the blacks have to be beat until the color of their skin becomes white. Jews don't believe that Jesus Christ is the savior that other faiths believe in and other races therefore feel their very existence must be destroyed. Gay people must be beat until they become straight again. If you are not a Christian, you are either beat with prayer sessions until you do become a Christian or you're ostracized. Christians don't believe Catholics are of a christian, believing faith. Does it really matter so long as they believe? And if I choose not to believe but still use the bible as a moral guide, which I find some Christians not even doing, all I find is them reciting verses at the appropriate time as a useful, defensive weapon as a demonstration of their faith in God, then that is my choice as long as I treat others as I want to be treated. But because of my feelings, I must be ostracized.
Seriously? Is that all you have? I come home and I close the front door and lock it. Once I am home, I don't worry about another freaking thing unless I choose a subject that I want to be worried about. So, ostracize away. Keep my grandchildren away from me because if you believe that your Christian practicing mother is doing the right thing by inciting you to hate your father so much that you can't even bear to mention my name, then I don't even want to see your children that have been raised by someone with so much hate in their heart. You continue on practicing your Christianity and your Missions to the Netherlands. Go save your hookers of another land instead of trying to help people right here at home. Hypocrites!
Bullying can take on all forms.
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