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THE BULLY

NEVER GROWS UP

By Andrea SturmPublished 4 years ago 3 min read
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I think that the saddest aspect of the Bully is that they a developmentally delayed in human growth. They have been frozen in time in aspects of their character and they can be triggered to regress with just the right word or action. The thing is that which triggers a Bully is simply an illusion embedded in the past that they allow to the surface. I am, perhaps, a Bully when I am bullied. Having never owning that character out right, I have adopted the characteristics of a bully by mimicking their own action.

You might think that there are not that many people who own these conditions. I write to challenge your perceptions of this world you think you know, I seek to explore if some in a community simply allow the Bully to thrive by accepting their passive aggression, yet, even a snark, a snarl or the famous Chicago “wow”, is a form of disrespect which trends the boundaries of the passive Bully.

Perhaps, they have physically grown into an adult body. Have you been in their presence? They will dismiss vision, growth and change simply to accept the antiquated ways of days long passed. They are complacent, bitter and carry a Grey soul that only grows with each negative interaction.

I was at the grocery store and I saw when the bagger simply dropped the eggs into the bag. Then, so long ago, I said nothing. I arrived home and the paper bags were drenched in broken eggs. Eggs are intended to nourish the body and please the soul, not to be thrown with anger into a bag. Later, I met a master chef, some years had passed, the memories of that bagger flooded my mind like a trigger. This chef had told me the food with eat must be handled and prepared in love, not hate nor anger. It recalls that we are certainly what we eat, our consumption, even of words that carry poisonous bitter pills like those from the Bully, the angry dark Grey soul for whom I hold great sorrow. I pity none. Therefore, by that same theory. When we speak love, and practice understanding that brings real connection, bitter words cease to pass our lips and we are compassionate in our community.

These people wield their weak authority upon a person, a community, an organization, a city, a state, or even an entire nation. Powered by the energy of the antiquated complacency and driven by a paralyzing fear of change. It is possible you have, indeed, met one. Perhaps, it is a simple feeling that remains depressed in your soul, an indicator where the hair on your neck is standing despite the sugary lies that are being spoken. Cheeky in nature surly by intent, the master Bully has developed a skill that surpasses the naked eye. They move through their realm of control causing venomous devastation.

It could end here but the stagnate complicity is a design dedicate to the procreation of hurtful harmful acts and words. As with a fire that burns acreages of forest wildly across a state, these fires can be quelled with a controlled burn intended to send carbon to a depleted soil. In these words, control establishes clearly spoken boundaries designed to deliver an established acceptable arena. It is the act of assuming not only control of those boundaries you are willing to compromise but more importantly a reborn sense of self-confidence that builds respect. Alternately, it is complacency that reinforces the antiquated acceptance of all social injustice.

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