Posted by Dinah on June 17, 2009, at 5:21:48
In reply to Dreams of being bullied, posted by SLS on June 15, 2009, at 15:25:09
I find that my past life with bullies comes most insistently to my mind when I'm in current situations and emotional states that echo the past ones.
In my case, it's feeling trapped and with no way out. Or feeling like I am being left unsupported in an unfair situation.
In your case it might be different. It sounds as if you internalized the bully's judgments of you more than I did. I may have felt trapped by them, and wanted to (in dog language) chew my leg off in the trap. But their opinions of me were so far off the mark that they were laughable.
For the most part, I've only gone to reunions at the school where I was happy and not bullied. But I did go to one reunion at the other place. With one exception, they seemed to have grown into just the sort of adults that one would expect. The ones who tormented me then were still b*tches. And even if they had achieved more overt success in their lives than I had, the state of their souls, for want of a better word, was not anything one would envy.
While yours appears to be in fine shape. :)
Is there anything going on in your life right now that has you feeling somewhat similar to how you felt then?
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