[ SECRET POST #3438 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3438 ⌋

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Re: Inspired by an article I just read

[lb_lee]

Bullies no, abusers yes. It had... interesting results. (At the time, I thought it did absolutely nothing, and kinda washed my hands of it with the sentiment of well, at least I tried. But now it seems a lot of the folks in that arena are kinda collapsing and falling apart. Dunno if it's just other shit in their lives or if something I said had any impact, and I don't want to get close enough to find out.)

Honestly, I actually used to bully a kid in middle school. Also my little brother. (In a family like ours, we could be REALLY nasty to each other. It got really bad.) It was a really fucked-up time, and sometimes I wish I could find that kid again, even though he'd be a grown man by far now, and apologize to him.

But I don't even know his name. And even if I somehow DID magically find the guy, how do you apologize for that kind of damage? If one of MY abusers chased me down to say sorry, I'd probably be extremely anxious, maybe frightened. I don't want to be like that; I hurt that poor guy enough, you know?

But I do wish I could say sorry to him, without scaring him or causing him stress. Hell, I wish I could even talk to my brother about the fucked-up shit that happened between us. But how do you even go about discussing shit like that?

I don't know. Sometimes, the best you can do is try to change, never do it again, and help others who have been hurt.