Basically all my life, I have been in the same school. Since the school is international, a lot of people come and go. Good people, bad people and the people who are in the middle. I'm one of the ones in the middle, sometimes not that good, and mostly not bad and the type who's friends with almost everybody. There are a total of 62 nationalities in our school, and I've had different friends from different nationalities. Our school is also very strict on racism, which not many students are.
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I have had many experiences with gossip and I don't like it that much. If someone says something about another person, I try my best to avoid it, but sometimes an answer slips out. A few years ago, there was a girl, who was a friend of mine, but that friendship turned into a rivalry soon in 4th grade. I tried my best to avoid her because she always started rumors about me and people she didn't like (which was probably everyone in our grade). The only people she liked were my 2 best friends, and I felt like she was trying to steal them away from me. I didn't stand up for myself then, and I regret it now.
Once, we were on a girl scout trip, so we had to choose tent buddies. I obviously chose my best friends because we had to get either in tents that would hold 2 or 3. She was mad because she thought that everyone would pick her and no one else's opinion mattered. But she was wrong. On the bus to the trip, I was writing down notes about random things with my best friend and my BFF drew stars all over the page. Since, the girl wanted to look, I showed her the piece of paper to make her see that we didn't write anything about her and suddenly she said that I called her a bad word because of all the stars. I was so mad at her I literally felt like strangling her, but thankfully, I kind of calmed down. She kept on arguing with me and its very hard to avoid a person sitting really near to you. So I just kept on arguing which wasn't the right thing to do. The girl left the school I was going to at the end of 5th grade back to the U.S and I don't think I want to see her again, unless, she has changed.
What I would have done (I had this all planned in my head as she mocked me) was I would have walked up to her, said I didn't like it. I would have said to leave me alone and I didn't care what she said about me. I would have asked why she didn't like me and what did I do to her. Most of all, I would have said if she could forget about what happened before, and relive our dead friendship. But, sadly, that is the past, so I can't really do anything about it. But I will do this now ( if someone was bothering me) and for the rest of my life.
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| A text from some horrible person :( |
Graphic Sources:
http://webreputationmanagement.net/blog/tag/monitor
http://www.independent.ie/national-news/cyber-bullying-widespread-but-parents-kept-in-the-dark-1380630.html
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