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⌈ Secret Post #6598 ⌋

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Not really a vent per se

[(Anonymous)]

...I just need to get this off my chest.

The other day I googled a former classmate, it has been over a decade since seeing this person and in looking for them, I found an obituary site for alums of my old high school. I had never seen this site so I clicked and there were a couple hundred entries of people who graduated from the 1930s up until the present. Among the random obits, the name of a woman who was one of the biggest bullies at school when I was there; she died in 2021. Only 4 people had signed her condolence page and when I read those names 3 of them were the equally shitty bullies that were her high school clique. All of them said essentially the same "so sorry to hear this" message.

It was weird.

I felt and still feel some kind of way about it, especially after reading the short paragraph about her life, where she basically never left the state, much less the little town she lived in, and she worked at the store down the street from where we both grew up. It was so...I don't know, but I actually felt...kinda sorry for her? She was a shit in high school, maybe she changed. I don't know. Anyway I still feel weird about it. 🤷‍♀️

Re: Not really a vent per se

[(Anonymous)]

It is weird to hear about former classmates, especially bullies. I never had FB/Xitter so I never kept up with anyone from school (not that I had any friends), though I was surprised to hear about a random middle school classmate via work (let's just say they came up in a conversation I probably wasn't supposed to hear, but in my defense, I was hungry and didn't tell the party to have the conversation in the breakroom). Nothing bad, just "huh, okay."

Weirdly, I heard of stuff that happened to folks outside my grade, including a person who got murdered on their front lawn (suspected robbery), and someone who ended up on one of those music competition shows for a time. I don't think either were bullies though.

Re: Not really a vent per se

[(Anonymous)]

My bully landed herself in jail for three months for stealing after high school and all I could think of was the catharsis factor rather than feel sad for her.

Re: Not really a vent per se

[(Anonymous)]

Mine went to prison for life for murder: he shot his mother's boyfriend in the face with a shotgun.

Who could've seen it coming 🙄

Re: Not really a vent per se

[(Anonymous)]

One of my main bullies got gout in her foot in our 20s. We're approaching 40 and I think she still struggles with it. She's someone who was/is very much about looking good and put together, so suffice to say I don't feel very sorry for her.

Re: Not really a vent per se

[(Anonymous)]

Whatever ways you feel, they're valid.

Someone who bullied my little brother died from suicide when they were 20 and I felt a lot of feelings. I still feel both sad and not that sad about that person.

Re: Not really a vent per se

[(Anonymous)]

I wish I was able to feel that sort of empathy. Unfortunately, I do not, lol.

Re: Not really a vent per se

[(Anonymous)]

OP

I don't know if I'd call it empathy exactly; yes I did feel kinda sorry for her, but it was more like it was so pathetic or something, like dang can't even dunk on her because there's nothing there. And the one comment on her page that wasn't from one of her old cronies was a coworker saying she couldn't make the funeral because she had to work. It just felt sad.