Short story: Joyce, bullied at school by a bully, went on to marry him later on in her life.
By emptychair
@innertalks (23746)
Australia
March 29, 2020 10:45pm CST
Joyce was a young girl of around six or seven years of age, and she attended the local school at Carisbrook, a small town in Victoria.
She liked one of the boys in her class, but he always picked on her, quite a bit each day.
This turned a bit wild, when he used to snatch her writing papers and exercise books from her, and throw them off of the top of the mullock heaps, in the school grounds, to be dispersed angrily by the winds.
Joyce was upset by this, and she used to cry all of the way home, every time this happened to her at school.
One day, her mother came to meet her halfway, and she saw that her daughter had been crying, and so she asked her what had happened.
Joyce told her mother about this classroom bully, and Joyce's mother knowing this lad, walked back to the school, then onwards to the boy's own house.
She was very angry as she knocked on the door, and as the boy's mother answered, she told her how her son, Ricky, was abusing her daughter's life at the school.
If this does not stop right away, I will take you to court over this, and my husband knowing the judge there, will get you a hefty fine indeed.
She left without waiting for a reply, and lo and behold, the bullying stopped, and Joyce noticed the next day at school, this boy had red ears, where he had been obviously clipped across them with a hard hand, or two.
He had learnt his lesson, and after twenty years or so more, Joyce and him were married. Her heart was healed, and joined his then too, as one.
Takeaway line:
Love lives in all parts of God's creation, but not always actively alive, until some event joins it to some other part of creation, and then the love, being joined, heals all past ills instantly.
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School life can be very hard for some young people, breaking their little hearts each and every day, with the pain.
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@Aquitaine24 (12000)
• San Jose, California
30 Mar 20
In the old days the parent's word was law.
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@innertalks (23746)
• Australia
30 Mar 20
Yes, the parent's word, and the teacher's word. The children were scared of both their teachers, their parents, and sometimes their schoolmates too.
My Dad and my mum both told me how bad their schooldays were, way back then.
My mum was whipped with a big strap across her legs, cutting and bruising them, by her second-grade teacher, a really nasty woman.
My mother's mum went and told that teacher off, and told her that if she ever did that again to her daughter, her husband would do it to her, hit her with her own strap across her legs too.
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@Shiva49 (28402)
• Singapore
30 Mar 20
@innertalks There have been cases where parents directly confronted their children's bullies with physical violence - siva
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@innertalks (23746)
• Australia
30 Mar 20
@Shiva49 Yes, I remember my Dad also did this once, not to the bully, but to the bully's father, though. He went around to the bully's house, and he told the father off.
My older brother was bullied badly. One time, he was placed down a manhole, and the manhole cover was put back on top of the hole. He had to stay there for hours, before a passing teacher rescued him.
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@changjiangzhibin89 (17245)
• China
4 Apr 20
Funny thing ! She turned out to marry him.No discord,no concord.
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@innertalks (23746)
• Australia
6 Apr 20
@Aquitaine24 Yes, we all grow up, in one way or another.
Hardly anyone ever stands completely still in their life.
Sometimes, our great pain, or hurt, churns the soils of our hearts, even adds manure, from all of the horribleness that we have endured, most painfully, and all of this finally allows love to grow in the freshly tilled, now replenished, revitalised, and manured, soil, then too.
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@innertalks (23746)
• Australia
4 Apr 20
Yes, funny things like that are a part and parcel of our lives, funnily enough.
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@Lushlala (4028)
• Gaborone, Botswana
2 May 20
@innertalks Yes, who knows what was going on in the young man's head. I agree, love conquers all and heals as well :)
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@innertalks (23746)
• Australia
3 May 20
@Lushlala And who knows now what I was thinking of when I wrote that too. It was based on something that happened to my own Mum in her schooldays.
After I write something, and complete it, I often then forget, why I wrote stuff as I did at that time. Writing sort of flows out of the writer for no apparent reason sometimes.
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@innertalks (23746)
• Australia
1 May 20
Thanks. Maybe, he actually liked her, and was using this way of getting her attention, or maybe, you are right, his father bullied him too. Yes, I do believe true love conquers all.
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@innertalks (23746)
• Australia
30 Mar 20
Yes, perhaps it is only love that can move past hurts, and move us past them too, with it.
Otherwise, we tend to stay in the hurt, without love's help to move us on past it, with forgiveness, of ourselves and others, a big part of that process too.
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@innertalks (23746)
• Australia
31 Mar 20
@Shiva49 Love only ever heals. It never creates more hurt.
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@Shiva49 (28402)
• Singapore
31 Mar 20
@innertalks Yes, without love and forgiveness, we tend to stay in the hurt and thereby punish ourselves relentlessly while the perpetrators get away scot free. Love helps us to move on - siva
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@Hannihar (130150)
• Israel
15 May 20
@innertalks
What a horrible bully. Good for her mother to do that.Good that the bullying stopped. Bullies should not be able to ever get away with what they do to others. I have a bully above me that wins all the time no matter what I try and I cannot win. I wish I had someone to help me with this. Someone did talk to him and came away thinking he was nice and he fools them all the time. He does not fool me. I hope she is ok and he is behaving himself. I will never trust bullies. I say once a bully always a bully.
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@innertalks (23746)
• Australia
15 May 20
I suppose amongst bullies, there are sometimes different types of bullies.
One type of a bully is a bully because he cannot communicate properly, and uses bullying to communicate.
This was the case here.
Twenty years later, he could connect through love, rather than through bullying, and so, in this case at least, his bullying nature was overcome.
Teach a bully the skills of connective communication, and they will often drop their bullying.
Ricky had become a lawyer. He was now good at communicating, and he could move past his forced way of connecting to people with bullying.
@Hannihar (130150)
• Israel
15 May 20
@innertalks
The bully that lives above me is just darn right nasty. So glad he changed. That is impressive that he is a lawyer.
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@innertalks (23746)
• Australia
16 May 20
@Hannihar It's really hard to know how to deal practically with nasty people.
Nastiness often arises in someone who sees nastiness all around them, and so just wants to not miss out on what they think such nastiness achieves, or brings to people.
They are greedy to get more than their own fair share, so use nastiness, and bullying to try to get it from others.
This faulty thinking is what leads to bullies, trying to get more than their fair share.
We should just take our own share, and let them go. We should stay away from them, as much as we can.
If they continue to badger us, though, we should then use whatever fair legal means are at our disposal to use against them too.
A bullied person needs help from a larger social protector, such as the law is supposed to be.
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