EDIT - So I am soo lucky to have a cousin like I have. My cousin is in gr.12 at my school and I told him in front of a few others in my family about what was happening. My cousin suddenly started texting a whole bunch of people telling me he'd take care of it. It was a few days later when my teacher pulled me out of english class to be apologized to by one of the people so I asked my cousin if he talked to my teacher and he said he only barely mentioned something to my teacher when he passed him in the hall. Well today I learned what he actually did. Apparently he took my teacher from the staff room and basically explained the situation to my teacher and then told him "This is bullying and I've talked to my friends about it. Now either you will do something about this or we will." ......
I love my cousin! He is like a big brother to me XD
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Have any of you ever been bullyed? I'm just curious. This is kinda a rant journal I apologize but I kinda really need to get this off my chest. Lets just say I've pretty much all my life run into some sort of bullying but it wasn't until highschool that I started to really get upset about it. And yes the topic of my bullying has always been about my love for horses.
So I guess the story begins in grade 9 pretty much within the first few weeks everyone knew I loved horses. For some strange reason a bunch of guys in my grade thought it'd be funny if they teased me about it. I had people I didn't know come up to me and say "hey are you the girl who likes horses...... well I eat horses" or " Hey guess what? I hate horses"Now I know that people eat horse meat in some countries or obviously some people hate horses but honestly the fact they said it to me knowing I'd be irritated by it is what hurt me. It seemed like in every class there'd be a few boys that would either come up to me and say stuff or whisper in a corner, just close enough for me to hear them and start to whisper negative things about horses. I'd walk down the halls and as I passed by it seemed that every group of guys in my grade would be talking about horses. Finally I told a very good friend of mine about it and soon after it all stopped. The occasional teasing remark occurred but it never phased me until then
Well this week was the start of the new semester, before that nothing happened in gr 10. But the first day I walk into my religion class there are a bunch of boys sitting in the isle next to me in a little group. Suddenly all I hear is the word horse, pop up in every conversation. If I reacted, such as turning my head or jumping up at the sound it caused them to laugh or say to each other stuff along the lines of "look, we said the word horse and she looked at us" or something like that. Well 2 days ago we were walking out of class and two of the boys were walking behind me saying really stupid things along the lines of "yeah horses are so stupid" and just continuing on and on saying negative things directly behind my back. Now normally I'd just ignore but I got really mad for once and I kinda yelled at them ^^" They were shocked slightly but I could tell they were amused. Now I think when I go back to school tomorrow things are going to be worse :/
Now some of you may think I'm over reacting, and many people do. Heck in grade 9 my mom told me I have to try to be less sensitive about the topic. You see, the way I see it is that I know that people don't like horses, don't appreciate them, ect. but the sheer fact it was said behind my back though I could still hear, just to get a reaction out of me makes my blood boil. Almost as though you were a mother and every time you went to work all you could hear were people saying bad things about your child and ONLY when you were there. Wouldn't that make you feel terrible about yourself, knowing these things are being said just because of you and not because of your child. I know a mother and child can't really compare to me and horses but you see horses are the thing I love most in this world. I honestly don't think I'd be able to last very long if I knew that I could never be near one, or think about them, are draw one. And to be the source of all these things being said about them. The source of the insults that are being said about the thing I LOVE, well that tears me up inside.
The worst part?? I don't have any proof! and very few names. The people whisper behind my back, I don't see their lips move so how can I be 100% sure that they actually did do this (tho I'm pretty sure they are) but without proof I can't do anything. I sound crazy when I try to explain it to people cause of the lack of actually proof. -.- so the only real thing I can do is either grow a backbone and set them strait or not do anything and bear with it until is stops.
I mean honestly! Is it so weird for someone to love horses! So many people do but why is it that I get teased, bullyed. I love the fact I love horses but these idiots make me wish I didn't.
I'm sorry for this rant, I promise it's something I won't make a habit of but I really needed to type this out and I want to get people's opinions on the situation ^^' Btw do you think I'm over reacting?? I won't get mad if you say I am ( my own mom did -.- ) but I honestly wanna know.