I really wanted to upload somethind for the Spirit Day because... well... Yeah, I've been "indirectly" bullied in the middle school period. I'm a really cheerful and active girl, I like so much being with my friends and lately I knew some new people that now are a very important part of my life. I've always been a girl that loved to have fun with friends, until the 1st year of middle school arrived. I don't know why, all my cheerfulness... It disappeared. All of sudden. I immediately felt marginalized from the other people of my class. And then I started feeling depressed, sad, sometimes I even thought it would have been better to die. Isn't that a horrible thing for a 12 years old girl to think? The only thing that allowed me to live a little better was the friendship of a few people, my old friends and just 2 girls of my class. If I didn't have neither them... I don't know what I would have been able to do. My family didn't know nothing. Neither my old friends, they just kept being my friends as always. Why they didn't know? Beacuse I've always acted like it was always fine. I've always done my best to look okay, like if nothing never happened. But when I was alone, thinking about my situation, thinking about my real feelings... I was always crying so much in these moments. When middle school finished, I promised to myself that I would have changed, or better, I would have returned to be the one that i was and my REAL SELF. This summer I knew a bunch of idiots, with them I immediately felt at ease, I felt accepted, I could be myself, maybe because I'm an idiot too, lol So, I want to say "Thanks" to all my "old" friends, that of course I consider friends even now, at the same way of before, for cheering me up when I was sad and another big "THANK YOU" to all my new friends that made me re-discover my real self.
And also, saying all this I want to say STOP to bully, every form of bullying it is, it ALWAYS hurts. Don't emarginate people just because they look "different" from you, always try to know each other as better as you can. Prejudices are the worst things in this World.
I like very much your drawing, but I love the description. I can understand you, because my experience of the middle school has been the same as yours. In my class I had no real friend. The only one people who helped me to go out from my personal hell was a person that I knew not so much, but she became my best friend... and she still is. Everything I did was stupid, or strange, for my "friend"... I still don't understand why did they think it. Thank you for sharing your experience and this drawing... It means much for me, too. Happy Spirit Day 2012.
Thank you, the drawing is just a doodle, I actually wanted to attract the attention to the description. Even these new friend I met this summer... I don't know them well. I don't really know who they really are. But I trust them. I thought I would have never trusted none so easily after that experience. I buit a thick wall around myself, I thought none could break it. That's true, they didn't break it. They just didn't see it. It just disappeared all of sudden and I could be myself, after a really long time. Happy Spirit Day to you too, let's hope that these experiences won't happen to us and the others anymore...
I understand completly. I've been very lonely at school lately and have been acting like this too, but my friends always made me feel like I was actually wanted. Friends are truely wonderful people to have
I can understand you, because my experience of the middle school has been the same as yours.
In my class I had no real friend. The only one people who helped me to go out from my personal hell was a person that I knew not so much, but she became my best friend... and she still is.
Everything I did was stupid, or strange, for my "friend"... I still don't understand why did they think it.
Thank you for sharing your experience and this drawing... It means much for me, too.
Happy Spirit Day 2012.
Even these new friend I met this summer... I don't know them well. I don't really know who they really are. But I trust them. I thought I would have never trusted none so easily after that experience. I buit a thick wall around myself, I thought none could break it. That's true, they didn't break it. They just didn't see it. It just disappeared all of sudden and I could be myself, after a really long time.
Happy Spirit Day to you too, let's hope that these experiences won't happen to us and the others anymore...
I've been very lonely at school lately and have been acting like this too, but my friends always made me feel like I was actually wanted.
Friends are truely wonderful people to have