Being Bullied As A Teenager: Character Analysis

Welcome back to part three of this instalment about my experience with being bullied as a teenager and how it carved a pathway to empowerment. It is an early Friday morning and I am boiling some water so I can prep myself to sip on Lemon and Garlic tea as we begin this blog post. In the last two posts I wrote about what it felt like to feel hopeless and then delved into the process of how I discovered critical lessons that helped shape my destiny. In this written piece I would like to invite you to the idea of character development and that the events in our life are a pathway to self-discovery and growth. Each example I provide will look at an experience from my life and how the lesson of each experience contributed to my development in character. …show more content…
It is a grey field where we want to move forward and we are constantly met with a feeling of internal resistance. I felt this resistance because I had been seeded with negative beliefs about myself. This came from being bullied and excluded so I had forged an idea about who I was. This reminds us that emotions can be a very powerful force and if it is not understood and managed it can either make us or break us. In the state of suspension I had experienced an abundance of negative feelings. Strong negative emotions can create false impressions on the mind and ultimately affect the way we feel about ourselves. The understanding of strong emotions gives us the first clue about character development. In times of strong emotion we can set a path for our character to grow and expand whether it is positive or negative. Who we are can change based on an event but even more critically the way the experienced emotions shape our psychology and beliefs about who we …show more content…
When I was 15 and was diving myself into personal development literature I had stumbled upon articles that talked about how if we wanted to get something in life we had to give first. Because I truly wanted to ‘get’ so much out of life I started becoming a giver instead. I learned how to listen to people and offer my advice. I helped others out when it came to homework and soon found myself in a passionate cycle of giving. To this day I absolutely enjoy contributing and giving to others because it brings a sense of joy. I found myself contributing to different forums online and passionate about offering perspective and advice to people all around the world. In fact I would love to learn how to give more and with the blog it is another attempt of mine to give more to the world. This gives us another clue about character development is that the things that get us started can evolve into a passion we never knew had