I learned this lesson the hard way. Unfortunately throughout my time in middle school, I was chronically bullied, especially during my 8th grade year. The offenses would be both verbal physical. Bullies would often tell me how ugly they thought I was, and would literally kick my butt. Somehow I took those offenses quietly until I received a rather rude wakeup call; my best friend at the time played a huge role in my hazing. The bullies enlisted her help, and together they wrote three line rhyming limericks under the guise of a secret admirer. These limericks came about once every week for a month, and progressively got meaner until they were basically poems about how ugly they …show more content…
So I confronted my bullies and told them that I would take this issue to the administration if the bullying continued, and cut all the toxic people out of my life; soon the bullying stopped. I am a big proponent of the idea that everything happens for a reason and to this day, and even though standing up for myself that is still one of the hardest things I have ever had to do I have become a stronger, more confident and outspoken individual because of it. Now I do not let people, institutions, or anything push me around because I learned to speak up; I think the world would do well to learn this