Hey peoples…
Y’all know how everyone’s father/mother was so brilliant and always took the first position in class?
That’s what comes to mind seeing/reading/hearing everyone come for bullies lately.
So we were all good, juniors loving, never punished, never wicked seniors back in school?
Everyone is suddenly speaking out against bullies and bad guys; which is a good thing but I’m here wondering…
So who was the bad senior back then? Who was the wicked senior back then?
We’re now all saints abi? Who was the senior that sent an eleven year old me to fetch charcoal in an iron? Yes, hot red coal from the fire place, with whatever I could mange to.
Who was the senior that took us to green house to give us the punishment of our lives just because…?
I remember who it was, I remember them…
Or was it my own classmate back in JSS 1 hounding me and making fun of me for wearing glasses and calling me kashin kifi (fish bone) because I was a lanky 11 year old? She did this every time she saw me especially when we went to fetch water… mostly because I could not carry my own bucket and to her, i was just a glasses wearing ajebota from Lagos and so I deserved to be laughed at…
I remember her.
I remember her name.
So I’m sure that other juniors remember you too if you ever bullied them… abi this one that happened to me wasn’t bullying?
So before we become all sanctimonious and call out others, take a moment to think about your own deeds… were you that senior?
If there was social media in your time, would you have trended for being that Senior?
I know for sure I wouldn’t have been...
I pray for little Sylvester and I pray for his family. I hope those boys get caught and brought to book.
And if this post hit a nerve, I hope you are gracious enough to apologize to those whom you bullied and if you still are a bully, (because it doesn’t end in school) I hope you repent because it doesn’t do you or anyone any good; it only causes pain and sorrow and in this case, death.
Let’s do better, lets teach ours better.
xo
