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duskobgd in School Days • 13 days ago

I have three memories of primary school.
Exercising the teacher's authority, which in those years, when it was generally acceptable for a teacher to beat a student, if he felt it was necessary, happened every day.
The merciless brutality of children towards those who are not "in the same group" and who suffered a lot of peer violence because they are different, be it in class, skin color or physical fitness.
But also friendship, because some of my school friends from those years have remained my best friends throughout my life.

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galenkp 13 days ago

The different experiences people have is interesting and how those experiences affect a person in the moment and future can be positive and negative. I don't see anyone from my school days, no desire to. I've moved on.

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duskobgd 13 days ago

And imagine the scene: You go to the 40th graduation in your best form and you show everyone who discriminated you as a kid, how their humiliation actually lifted you out of the mud in which they remained.
Because the one who has the mindset to humiliate and mistreat others, can never rise from the mud.

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galenkp 13 days ago

Yeah, but I have no desire for accolades or admiration for people like that, they're meaningless and irrelevant to me. The only people who I want to see what I've achieved and how hard I've worked to attain it is people whose opinion I value. I'm not a puppet on a string and have had enough success in life to simply be content with that success itself as the reward, no need to push it in people's faces.

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duskobgd 13 days ago

One of the elementary school especially bullied me through all 8 grades.
When we met, 20 years later in some company, he repeated the same sentences he uttered as a child.
Some people around us (probably wanting to start a discussion) asked me, "Why don't you answer him?"
"Why would I say anything, when his life is so screwed up, that it would be a shame if I said something to him now".
That was the last time I heard him speak to me.

It's healthy if you have the opportunity to not be in the same environment, with the one you don't want to see everywhere, but in the city where I live, I meet sometimes and it's obvious, I have to be ready to fight back.

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galenkp 13 days ago

Some people never change I guess, just a human thing. I like your tactic of just moving on, people like that don't matter.

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