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darcydodo ([personal profile] darcydodo) wrote2003-04-22 11:45 am

Am I really that scarred?

This morning, as I passed by the playground on my way to campus, I heard a little child calling out a taunt; and my insides just curled up with this sick anguish and pain for the unknown recipient of that jibe. You'd think that after so many years I could look back on elementary school with a laugh, and that does seem usually to work, but evidently when faced with actual as opposed to abstract memories there's nothing doing. *sigh* I guess I'll just have to accept that I'm fucked up.

Aww

(Anonymous) 2003-04-25 03:29 pm (UTC)(link)
*Hug*! I get upset too when I see little children doing apparently nasty things. Funnily at the time I never really took it very seriously. And then I comfort myself thinking that I can't really know what the situation is, just from what I can see in the few seconds when I pass a school.

Thankfully the great majority of children turn into human beings eventually.

- R

Re: Aww

(Anonymous) 2003-04-26 12:35 am (UTC)(link)
I was nasty sometimes and got picked on sometimes *shrug*. Mainly because I was confused, I thought that if older kids picked on me it must be my job to pick on the younger kids. Hitting people was easier to understand though; I never quite got the hang of the whole psychological torture thing.

- R