Can't stop holding a grudge

you stop taking things personally. It's not events in our lives that affect us, but what we think of them. An insult doesn't actually hurt you, it's all in your head.

That was in primary school? If so I can understand.

But anyway. You should gain some perspective: probably most kids would have been lying if they had said what you said. Therefore, the teacher was just acting based on the probability of your statement being true given the average ability of a child your age. The reaction was therefore most probably nothing personal. You cannot expect an average person who has to deal with mostly average children to understand and cater for a child who operates too far off of the norm.

Just forget about it and enjoy your life. Actually in my personal opinion, too much success especially when you are young brings its own pressures and is probably not worth it in the end. (As you grow up, people care less and less - "child prodigy" phenomenon.) Fishing sounds much more enjoyable.

Life is what you make it, some of the richest people I know didn't even have a good education. By clinging on to hateful memories then it will only drag you down in the future.

I just feel like I have a lot to say and no one to say it to.

I didn't go to what you could call the best of schools; far from it, in fact. My first primary school identified me as gifted and talented ... but didn't have a G&T programme, so no one ever did anything to help me.

In fact, that school and the one that I later moved to were very active in discouraging me from asking stupid questions and reading ahead in the books because I can, in fact, read quite quickly. In one memorable incident, I was sent out of the room for lying that I had finished reading a book ... when I had done it all.

So, by a time I get to a school that actually gives a **** about people, I've been taught that thinking differently is bad and that any effort you make won't be appreciated ... so I just don't. I'm still clever and still got good grades, but could probably have done a lot better.

I've been reasonably successful - got into the uni I wanted on the course I wanted, and I'm doing all right here. I don't have very high ambitions, and I may well have not anyway, happier to pursue my own pastimes like fishing than spend all my time in a job ... but sometimes, I consider what could have been, and every time it comes back to "You are just an evil lying cow - get out of my classroom, I won't have you in my class anymore!"

I'm not unhappy with the way I am, but I can't stop holding a grudge against the people that never tried to help me throughout my early education. It's not controlling my life or anything, but sometimes I just feel like I have a lot to say and no one to say it to.

Any advice?