People Suck!
March 1, 2008 by laura
Filed under Diseases & Conditions
This past week, people in British Columbia recognized “anti-bullying day”. By this, many people wore the colour pink. Parts of my life are spent in hostile environments. And even though several people “acknowledged” this day, not everybody did. Too bad really. Because, these people have no idea how much harm they cause. Hours go by, where people give barbs to each other (me included, most often to protect myself). People who know better, are encouraging this behavior.
It has come to my attention, that this “bullying” is even worse than I suspected. There is back stabbing. I suspected it, of course. However, I didn’t realize how serious the problem was, until yesterday. And I only found out about it, because I was the victim of such an attack – no need to remark on how I found out. It hurts!
Last night, I made it home exhausted, and near tears. This morning, I got up to make some breakfast, and then returned to bed. Its now 3pm, and I am still in bed. Completely wiped out. My brain is focused with a plan of attack, but the energy isn’t quite there to execute it.
This leads me to think, about what our environment does to us. I have written about energy vampires, and people who throw negative energy darts. These people are real, and we do our best to either live with them or to avoid them completely. I am not strong enough, to be able to find a way to co-exist with these bullies any longer. It’s affecting my mind and my health.
I have no choice but to find a way to move on.
**Picture Source - peasap via flickr
I wish I knew the answer, I really do! I had the exact same thing about 2 weeks ago. A classmate said some hurtful things and it was very obviously intended for me. Unfortunately it meant that I then missed the following day of college, was ill for the entire half term (which further pushed my mental state feeling like those few precious days off were entirely wasted), and missed another day after half term.
I guess I’ve gotta learn not to worry about what people think of me =/
Chin up, and I hope you feel better soon. Try to do stuff, non-taxing, to make sure you arn’t constantly thinking about the person.
xx
Thanks Elena, you are very sweet. While I do have a problem with the initial person…. my attempts at confronting, made the situation much worse. The problem now, is that its infectious. And its out of hand. The only way I can stay immune, is to leave.
So that will be the focus.
I hope you are starting to come around a bit now. It’s horrible when holidays are affected by being ill. Hopefully you managed to get some much needed rest.