Hi my name is Megan, and I'm 15. I've always been a shy and kind girl. I hate when people judge me without knowing who I am. At school, everyone talks shit about each other behind their backs. I don't really know why, because the only thing that happens when you say mean stuff about other people is:
1. That person get's hurt.
2.You spread rumors about that person which maybe are or maybe aren't true.
3. And then because of the rumor spreading, the more people hear it, the worse it gets. And then every one ends up having a wrong idea of you are.I don't like saying mean stuff about other people, I feel horrible.
I did it once when I was about 13, I told Natasha (one of my friends at the time), that Bethan smelt like rotten eggs. I just said it because she was standing beside me and I could sense a disgusting smell coming from her. I felt awful with myself later.I didn't know that Natasha was a going to tell all the people she knew about it! But I felt so bad, that I went up to Bethan and told her what I had said. I thought it was the right thing to do, and although maybe she never spoke to me again I had to tell her. I expected another reaction from her when I told her. I thought she would be angry at me. She just said that I was a very brave and honest person by confessing what I had said. I also told her that I didn't mean to start rumors about her, and she just smiled and explained that she didn't care what people thought about her. I was so fascinated by her way of thinking that I thought she was really cool and I wanted to be her friend and hang out more with her.
Bethan is my best friend now. I know, funny right? The girl that I spread rumors about is now my best friend. But people change. Sometimes for the good, sometimes for the bad. And you just have to deal with it. Bethan later on that year told me why she hadn't showered that day. She had problems at home. Her parents fought and she just left without having a shower that morning because she was fed up of everyone in her house.
She has an older brother, his name is Michael. He is also one of the causes that her parents stared arguing. Two years ago he started to hang out with friends that influenced him to do stuff that he actually didn't want to do. At first he started stealing some candy at a stores. Then he skipped classes to go off with his 'friends'. And then is when he started stealing money from his parents to buy stuff like cigarettes, alcohol and clothes that his mum thought was inappropriate for him. When he got home with the clothes his mum had strictly told him he couldn't buy, his mum was furious. They argued for hours. The conversation had gotten so intense, that Michael slapped her right across her face.The sound of the slap was so loud that her husband, in the third floor of the house ran downstairs to see what had happened.
When he got there he saw Michael staring and his mum with tears in his eyes and an angry face. And his wife. Her face was bright red, but her face was completely serious. Bethan never told me how it ended because she got really sad when she talked about it.
This is an example of what I was telling you before. Don't judge people without knowing them or what caused them to be like this. Yes Bethan didn't smell well that day, but she had her reasons. Put your self in her position. I think she deserves support from people at school. She has problems at home and then she gets to school where people are also mean to her.
Once she told he she nearly commit suicide. She thought that everything was going downhill and she said that if she was going to live like this, she prefered not living. When she told me this I got really scared, because I never thought she was capable of such a thing. Bethan told me that I was her only friend, and that I was the reason she wanted to go to school everyday.
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