As an adult I read the news about children bullying other kids little did I know when I was a little kid how evil it could be children don't seem to care about consequences doing harm to others or they seem uninformed how bullying does harm to their sense of conscience how even I took part instigating harm done to a girl named Jody only a cold-hearted monster from storybooks could have acted as mean like a little demon unaware of his own actions against this girl if it were possible that my own admission could help another child still I could not believe such a world could exist but I must try to hope my actions as a child have repercussions like a stone tossed in a pond
Despite being a child the son of immigrants who should have known better even as I look back in horror at my past I realize damage sticks to the wrongdoer as much to the girl harmed back in the seventies the phrase we used was not mentally-challenged or mentally-disabled retarded was the phrase handed down for children to banter like curses of course we did not know how harmful our language had become as speech acts yellow journalism could not exaggerate my actions worse for me still if I said sorry to her today her pains my sorrow would not end
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