The Anonymous Widower

Bullying

Tom Daley did brilliantly to win the gold medal in the diving in Rome yesterday.  But he has also talked about how he was bullied at school.

I was bullied a lot at school.  It started in my Primary School, but a teacher spotted what was happening and paired me up with a larger boy, who lived just down my road.

But it really started in earnest in the second year at Grammar School and continued intermittently until one day, when I was in the fourth form. A regular tormentor, who I won’t name here, was turning by arm upside down and pummelling the muscle underneath.  It was painful and after some time I’d had enough and probably for the first time in my life I fought back.  It was a disaster in that I fell and my arm twisted and thye humerus snapped.

It wasn’t funny.

The bone was repaired but it has troubled me all my life since.  Well it did, until I went to a fitness expert, who gave me exercises which sorted it out.  This just shows how much if you break something you must have proper remedial treatment.

But what happened to the bullying?

It stopped for ever.

Since then though I’ve usually stood up for myself, just like I did in Naples.

It is interesting to postulate, that Tom Daley’s form this year, has been down to the elimination of the bullying from his life.  I know mine improved and once it was stopped, I never thought much more about it.

So, if there is any bullying in your or your family’s life, you must eliminate it.  Once the bullied know it is not there, everything will be so much better.

July 22, 2009 - Posted by AnonW | World | Bullying, School