Don Quixote

18

For 8th grade I had gone back to the public school I had been going to before. I used it as a way to start over and if I'm being honest it worked really well for me.

People would talk to me, people would compliment the way I dressed, I had a lot more friends, I had a lot more acquaintances, my life had overall gone from 0-20 as soon as I had gone back.

Being on the other side of things made my life easier, however it think it impacted the way I thought about things.

Before I was seen as "normal", I had opinions about certain political ideas that changed drastically when I was no longer weird.

My view on bullying for example.

When I was different from other people I though there was no excuse to be a bully. No reason to make fun of the way people naturally were, and while I don't totally disagree with my past belief, my view has shifted a little.

Making fun of people for things they can't control is a no, but if they can change it and they just don't, yes.

I remember there was this girl named Chaeryeong.

So be completely blunt she was fat, weird, and ugly. No one who looked at her could disagree. The only friends she had were people who couldn't be friends with anyone else because they were the same way.

Not only was she all of that she was also mean, and everyone knows you can be a bitch and ugly. You have to be one or the other.

People would constantly bully her (even in a little guilty of it).

Her "code name" people would call her was KitKat. I have no idea where that nickname came from but everyone knew her as it. You ask people "you know Chaeryeong?" And they would say "no who's that?" But if you asked people if they knew KitKat "oh yeah I know KitKat!!".

People would make sound effects as she walked by, people would call her names, people would look at her and then each other and start laughing.

I felt bad for her in the beginning, but as time went on and more of my friends and classmates made fun of her I noticed I started doing it too.

I wondered if I had never dressed differently, if I had never lost the weight, I'd I had never changed my beliefs, if I would also be made fun of like her.

The truth is, probably.