VGPolyglot said:
WagnerPaiva said:
Absolutelly, as a kid I was bullied as well and what that happened was not suicide or insanity, it was:
1 - Self-observation to understand if part of the criticism was deserved. Most of it really was.
2 - Effort to overcome part of the weakness.
3 - Accepting the weaknesses that were not fixable (like being a short guy).
4 - Realizing my place in the social arrangement and finding ways to get into the spots I wanted.
5 - Growth, understanindg the social fabric.]
Most of this was unconscious, cause it was simply the process of growing more mature and becoming a adult.
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So, basically you're saying that people that are getting bullied should just accept it and know their role? Also, you're talking about how suffering is so great for people, well I'm pretty sure the poor people in Africa that are starving to death and constantly having to live in fear of disease and war are really proud of their situation as it makes them so much stronger.
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That is their choice, but I certainly did not do that. Not at all.
What I did was to see the spots that I was interested in and found ways to get there, in creative ways.
There is a way, there is always a way.
If you see things in a proactive, not reactive manner, you will find a way.
I will give you two examples:
1 - I was very poor. And had trouble finding jobs. So I worked hard into learning and going into paths where the money was avaliable, people were needed and positions were stable and rewarding. It took a lot of work, but nowdays I have much more money and material stuff than all the kids that bullied me in school. Althought, nowdays, as a christian, I do not care about material stuff.
2 - As a atheist, I only became born again at age of 31, all I wanted was girls. So I worked creative ways to overcome some of the stuff that were preventing me to be interesting to girls and tried to shine a different light in the stuff I could not really change.
It worked. For a long time girls were my entire life.
Nowdays I have my steady girlfriend and those days are behind me.
But the thing was: What I did was: I looked into the criticism and did my best to change what was changeable and did my best to shine a different light into the stuff impossible to change.