Living in a Bully World

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One time, as I walk through the sidewalk of Claro M. Recto, Manila; I saw a group of young beggars screaming while throwing stones from one corner to another. Broken glasses are scattered along the main street. As I yell to warn them, I saw a woman w/ a thin physique and long-hair sitting down the corner of a cluttered area. As I observed, she’s having a hard time breathing as she trying to lift her head up to grasp for some air to breathe. As I tried to reach out for her to ask if she’s fine, the more she gets restless. As I take a closer look, I notice her bony hand was tied up w/ a heavy chain. She’s insane yet bullied.

The woman is a picture of a helpless person. She’s weak not because of her insanity but a victim instead of bullying. Wikipedia define Bullying as a form of aggressive behavior, which may manifest as abusive treatment, the use of force or coercion to affect others, particularly when habitual and involving an imbalance of power. It may involve verbal harassment, physical assault or coercion and may be directed persistently towards particular victims, perhaps on grounds of race, religion, gender, sexuality, or ability. The "imbalance of power" may be social power and/or physical power. The victim of bullying is sometimes referred to as a "target." Bullying consists of three basic types of abuse – emotional, verbal, and physical.

Life becomes more complicated and exhausted not because of the people around us but on how we treat them and the conflict they inflicted to us. Working in a place with different kinds of personality and attitude, experiencing unfair treatment & judgment to co-worker is like being a comic-hero Tarzan in a jungle survival; you’re like living in a bully world. Your sanity will surely be tested. Battling with your emotion is just a normal phase if you want to survive. For me dealing with all this is simply falling into one solution, always try to see things in a different perspective. As Ellen De Generes famous line said “Be kind to one another”. Maybe someday, I may never be known to be a woman with great attitude but to be remember as a person who has no enemy. It makes more sense to me. I’m crossing my fingers. It is really hard to live by this principles but truly rewarding for a person like me.