Author: Neha

I am coming to believe that the solution to the world’s problems isn’t to hate bullies. It’s to heal them. I don’t think children are born bullies, they are made into them. And why? Why do children become bullies? It’s antisocial, it’s certainly not the smartest long-run survival skill. It’s a short-term coping mechanism, like…

Do you ever have those days when life feels so glum and despondent, that so many other versions of your life could have happened to you and you figure you’d be happier in that story. Except that isn’t your story, this is your story. And you aren’t happy with it. It’s boring, rhythmic, out of…

Growing up being bullied meant I learned how to keep tallies quickly. And combined with being emotional, it meant that my form of revenge was to hope people disappointed me, vent against them in my head, and disappear from their lives. Though the vengeance of leaving gave me a feeling of superiority, it almost always…