In honor of the The Fourth Annual
National Bullying Prevention Awareness
Week,( Oct 4-10) I feel it is my duty to talk about my own experiences with bullying. You see, my friends, I too was a victim of bullying once upon a time. That's right -- Paul Diamond Blow was bullied!!!
I remember it well... I was in the 8th grade at Assumption catholic school, and apparently the 8th grade is when kids start tying to fit in and be cool. I had never had a problem with bullying before, but at the very beginning of the 8th grade I was picked on by the "cool kids" becaus I was the tall, shy nurd with glasses, greasy hair, and excema on my arm. The bullying included name calling, taunts, insults, and even physical threats and violence. They even gave me an insulting nickname that I hated. After the cool kids started harrassing me, the rest of the kids also started in so they could be "cool" too. I remember there was one kid who refused to pick on me... I told him, "What's the matter, don't you
want to graduate???"
The abuse lasted the entire year and the next year in High School I made a fresh start. I washed my hair on a daily basis, I quit wearing my nurdy glasses (and was blind as a bat), and I wore long sleeved shirts to hide my excema. I swore an oath to myself that if any of the kids from 8th grade were at my high school I would not let them carry the harassment and bullying on there too. And sure enough, they did -- one kid called me the insulting nickname from grade school so I gave him a sold pounch to the solar plexus and knocked the bravado out of him. I learned that punching a bully in the gut is an effective way to stop bullying. I punched a few more of my harrassers in high school and word spread: Don't mess with PDB!
I've come a long way since the 8th grade. I'm still freakishly tall but now I'm a super-cool guy, not a nurd. I wear contact lenses not nurdy glasses, I wash my hair once a day. I no longer have excema on my arm but I do have some wieird rash on my leg. I no longer have an insulting nickname, I have a cool rock'n'roll name.
But most of all I have learned to accept and love myself for who I am, I don't try to fit in, I love being a true individual. And last but not least I've learned kung fu, karate, tae kwon do, and other martial arts and if anyone tries to have their way with me, now as an adult, a karate kick to the ballsack usually takes the bravado out of them, or a round house kick to the kneecap will do the job if the groin kick doesn't. And if the bully still continues to be aggresive a palm heel strike to the nose, breaking the nose and sending pices of bone into the bully's brain will definately handle the situation. I've found this to be quite effective. That's right, kids... the BEST way to handle bullies is to teach them a lesson in manners by beating the holy heck out of them. Most all bullies are only tough on the outside and wimps on the inside.
I hope my little blog here about my experiences will help out some kids who are being bullied. My advice to you is this: be an individual, accept yourself for who you are, learn some kung fu, and beat up a bully today!
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