o3. march 23. 325 pm.

march 23. small rant -
respect/ younger girls..
"Okayy...I dont know if anyone has felt this way other then me but when i was in grade 8 all the grade 12s would treat us like [censored] and we would be scared shitless of them, and now.. as an older girl i can say the little grade 8s will walk right into me and not even say sorry! i think we need to be harder on them and they need to learn to respect girls( and guys) older then them and to stop thinking their the [censored] when there only 13. all you youner girls reading this you better get ready for next year! ha"

Okay so I read this on the lamest facebook application ever - "the bathroom wall". I think whomever wrote this needs to learn some life lessons or get their morals straightened out. When I was young I had it worse than anyone else and I mean it. I remember girls waiting outside my locker to beat me up, girls following me down the hallway yelling at me for dying my hair the same color as theirs, girls chasing me down the street, girls calling me shit stains and so many other horrible names.

If it hadn't been for people like this in my life I wouldn't be the person I am today. It's really hard to get past caring about what others think of you. It's only when you come to realize that it doesn't matter that you can take pride in yourself for knowing this.

For an individual to say that younger girls need "respect their elders" when they are maybe four years older is ridiculous. I think things will change when those younger girls are 52 and those of us four years older are 56. There's an obvious large difference between girls in grade eight and girls in grade twelve. This difference seems to me to be only the fact that younger girls are innocent and aren't solely out to respect people that don't treat them with respect.

If you ask me: you don't demand respect from others, you earn it.

I used to be the total opposite of the way I feel about younger girls now and act immaturely and treat them the way I was treated. It's great to know I can see past what I was and the way I made them feel myself. Call me a hypocrite if you like, I believe it's great to have the ability to see outside the box. The feeling of having younger girls look up to me is great and admire me for my accomplishments rather than have them scared of me because I'm a horrible person.

So congratulations to those girls my age and whoever posted that. You showed us the real you.