Here is my point of view... I have a lot of expirience with bullying. When I was a kid, I was bullied many times. Our primary was something else. It was riddled with bullying. I was bullied sometimes, sometimes I was the bully. Got beaten by older, stronger guys. We were sort of bullying some boys in our class, but I still felt like we were friends anyway. Didn't ask them... Im not proud of it. (But we are still friends with some of them) When the school day ended, we sometimes went to the park and were fighting, divided to 2 teams (we pretended to be police x protesters ), throwing stones at each other, using sticks etc. That is why i didnt take violence too srsly. I also got bullied on the summer camp for being fat. They did no physical harm to me. but they rather called me Obelix and were making jokes and that was 1000x worse than any punch I ever got. I was calling home crying, but I managed to stay. Then I started to do some sports that can protect me better and also can get me rid of the fat
As I was 18, I got my first .. like more permanent job.. I worked as a security guy on the club's doors, or even bigger festivals etc. and there I started to learn how to persuade 97% of men ( or any women, cuz they were much worse sometimes
) They were drunk, on drugs, rude, agressive, wanted to fight. Believe or not - 5 years of this work, i had to use violence just one time. And here is what i think - sure you can call the police, speak with the boss... but the problem is you can do this always after the harm (physical or psychical) is already made to you. Once you can walk on the street and some drunk guy wants you to fight. You can run or defend yourself. When you run, how do you feel after? And when you defend yourself, you can always end up with your nose broken or sure you can call the police, cuz that is why are they here, but your nose is already broken anyway. Or you can play a bit of a mind game and that is what I do. Because I believe that the instict of bullying someone comes from the simplest part of us - from some kind of animal instinct. And what happens when you show the dog that you are affraid of him? And what happens if you show him that you are not? I believe that you cannot change people from being stupid, rude, agressive and whatever. You can deal with one guy like this, calling police, talking to boss, but same situation can happen many times in your life. ... I believe the only way is to change yourself change yourself a bit to deal with them, to deal with the world which is stupid sometimes, same as the people in it. (and same as me in my primary)
I hope you wont get me wrong. I wish you very good luck with it, people should at least try to be kind and nice in any case. Even in the case of being killed by mortar 5 times in a row.
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