How I dealt with Bullying

Suicide is never an option, because it lets the bullies win, always. Out of curiosity, I dug up on people who made my life hell in secondary and primary school, turns out they are all nowhere near the standard of living that I am in right now, and I pity them. There was, and still is nothing wrong with me, there was something wrong with them. I learnt too that I was simply the image that they couldn’t achieve, so they hated it. Bullying has nothing to do with you, so don’t ever take it personally, make yourself small, more importantly, do not become what they are. I was just like Jayden Lalchan, picked on for every single thing, after a while I realized that being comfortable in my image, was all that mattered, my life and what I did with it only had to make sense to me.

The Bhagavad Gita talks about life being a battlefield, and Lord Krishna telling Arjuna that he can only guide him and cannot fight his battle because it is his duty to do so. Lord Krishna tells Arjuna, that he is simply a pawn in the cosmic order, and that this is him acting through Arjuna. Schools are battlefields, at work, at home, relationships, life is a battlefield, and we must fight, whatever our role. Fighting a battle also means walking away which is very overlooked. Some people will laugh or hate on you, fine, but there will be places where people will love you for the same, and I live for those places and those people. 

Go places and surround yourself with people where you are valued, respected and appreciated, stay there. If not, take yourself out, you have nothing to prove to anybody. I worked on becoming the best possible version of myself, mind, body and soul, obsessed with the effort and journey and not necessarily the results, because it is in that journey that we discover our true self, and once you find that person, nothing in this world could bother you.