From year 8 to the end of secondary school I was bullied and I know exactly why, those days still haunt me today, I have a head full of bad memories. There was this one boy called Louis Joesph, this boy had issues from the moment he entered this world, his father (from what I can make out) was a piece of **** of a human being, if you can even call him human, his face was covered in tattoos and from what Louis told me was involved in petty, small time criminal activity, a thug nothing more. Me and Louis were originally on good terms, I had no problems with him and he had no problems with me, you could even go as far to say we occasionally had a laugh, but one day that all changed... Looking back on it now I know exactly why - peer acceptance. I was in a low level class, for the retards and **** ups if you will. You might be thinking why someone like me ended up there? Reason being I pretty much gave up on education by the time i reached secondary school, because my mum left me and it was just me and my dad, teachers didn't particularly like me, there was this one Canadian French teacher, Miss Vozlo (don't now the spelling) had a vendetta against me from the start, she had two kids she couldn't control herself at home, so she took her frustration of being a bad parent out on me. This ultimately effected my mathematics performance and through association with Miss Vozlo to maths, I have despised the subject to this very day. It also effected my self confidence, both in character and academic confidence through to the end of my school life. But anyway back to the main subject.
The bulling I was subjected to was both verbal initially, then physical when they realised I gave up on life. They would fabricate lies about me, rumours and then, it being a school, would spread in no time. Insults such as masterbating on made up pets, calling you an ugly gay (I'm straight as hell) and insults on physical appearance. When they got bored with that after a few months, they upped the ante to a more physical approach. They pushed me once when I was arguing with one of the people from the low level class we was all in (they didn't like me because I was the only smart person in there), next thing I know I've been knocked to the floor, after another one of the main bullies (my classroom) run tackled me. Another incident was at lunch time Louis walked up to me and asked me to "smell this, what does it smell like?" (It was a bottle of piss). I stood there for a second, looking at them all just standing there. And I just lost it. As Louis turned his back and walked back to them, I started running towards him, he turned his head back at me and I punched him hard in the middle of the face, then again, and again, and so forth. Louis fell to the ground after the first 7 punches to the face, then I began to kick him like a man possessed. As it so happened there was a boy in year 11 who happened to be walking past with a teacher. He tried to pull me off Louis, but he couldn't get me off, it took 3 people to pull me off of him, as I was in a vicious rage. As I was pulled away the whole playground fell silent, people looked horrified at what they just seen. I looked back at Louis and he was laying limp on the ground, absolutely covered in blood. He also wore glasses and the lenses where apparently broken to pieces. I was dragged away from the scene apparently as I was told "shouting like a madman", hurling insults at the shocked bullies having witnessed what they just saw.
The next day I was put in inclusion and the entire school was abuzz with news of what happened yesterday. After that I never saw Louis again, but from what I was told, he is now partially blind in one eye. After that the rest of the bullies never bothered me again and all of a sudden I became a ladies man rather quickly.
People also became rather scared of me too. That fateful day changed the very being I was, it transformed me into a different person, like I was reborn!
My school experience was a source of great sorrow for me and continues to be a source of bad memories for me to this day. I was a tortured soul and what happened to me, during my time in secondary school made me the person I am today. I now find myself to be very courageous, manly and a strong moral compass against nasty people, I also find that I never take crap from no one now and I never backdown from a douche. Whereas I was out of shape in school, I am now in extremely good shape, very fit and have a toned and defined body. I used to be afraid of chatting up girls but now I love it. I am looking towards joining the armed forces potentially, as this is the person I have no become. I disciplined, fit, intelligent and morally upright person
Thank you for reading my story and I hope it can help some of you! Always believe in yourself and never take crap from a bully, you will love yourself for it!