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12 August, 2013

Stand up

Have a great day.

Courtesy standstrengthteam.org

Let me explain something to you. There will always be jerks and bad people with whom you will come in contact. What makes the difference is how you respond to these bullies. These people become nothing more than distractions. When I was a child, I was bullied a lot. At five years of age, I would often get beat up by the bigger kids in the neighborhood. We lived in a very rough part of town. I would often go home crying and my dad would beat me even more. He would say to me, "If you come home crying to me, this is what I am going to do to you...learn to fight." From that point on, my life became filled with violence, rage, anger and bitterness. I made a vow to myself at the age of five, that one day I would become so big , so strong and so dangerous that no one would ever pick on me again. In middle school (because I was so dangerous to the population of other students) the school administration gave me a job outside of school for half a day, everyday, at an ice rink. The other half of those days I spent isolated within the school in a few select classrooms, known as the special-education department.