STOP BULLYING

Since you would be curious to know my, 'I got bullied' story, here it goes....

A picture of cycle rickshaw. (I owe no rights on this pic.)

I was in my second grade.  Every afternoon, I would go home in a cycle rickshaw. There were a couple of other kids who would ride along with me.   Among them, there was a boy who was  quite taller than me,hefty and demon-ish, his rather lean and mean sister and I, the cute-short-silent kid ;). We were made to wait in the rickshaw which was parked just beside a very steep slope, until the rickshaw-uncle (In India, anyone the age of your dad automatically becomes your uncle) crosses the street with heavy traffic, to get back some more kids from the school. During this 15-20 minutes of wait, myself,  this boy who was studying 2 or 3 grades higher than me and his sister a year younger than him, were left all by our self. 

These 15-20 minutes were plain torture if anything else, every single day I went to school. This boy and his sister never liked me, for some reason. They found ultimate pleasure in hurting me and belittling me. Every afternoon, this boy would threaten me and scare me to death saying that he would push the rickshaw off the slope. He would even get down the rickshaw and push the cart, as his sister gave a approving laugh. Sometimes, even hurting me physically. The more I requested him to stop doing what he was, the more he did.  I never told this at home nor to the rickshaw uncle.

For some reason,  I thought nobody would help me and that sharing this story would only embarrass me and further weaken me. I kept mum and suffered alone. Being silent and pretending to ignore, were the only two options I thought I had at that time.

 I was the happiest, when my dad got transferred to a different state and myself to a different school after a year of hell. 

Since then, I kept myself safe by being at a safe distance from anything negative. As the need to be away from anything aggressive or unkind was since then not a want but a necessity. 
This whole experience taught me to chose the situations I want to be in and the people I wanted to be in my life. I just could not let anybody else hurt me like that boy & girl did.

 Later on, few more harsh lessons from life and I realized that ignoring a problem is never a solution. You just need to stand against what you think isn't right. 

Nobody told that 7 year old that 'you SHOULD ask for help when you can not handle'. But the 24 year old me knows that 'asking for help when in need and helping somebody in need, is a personal and social responsibility respectively, for any human'. 

P.S. 


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