Reply #3: The meanest thing I ever did was crumble to peer pressure...

[ScreamingMeemie]

When I was in middle school, there was a girl that everyone teased. There was nothing wrong with her, it was just a case of this girl being picked out to be teased by the whole class. I went along with it. And it haunted me. The teasing of her began in earnest in 6th grade (I guess, because I moved here in 7th grade). Wanting myself to fit in in this new school, I fell in with the crowd and would turn my back when she spoke to me and do all sorts of the nasty things that 12-13 year old girls do...and felt awful doing it. But, as a serial school transfer...it was the only thing I knew to do. It came back threefold, as prophecy fortells. I became the teased in 8th grade, the most miserable year in my life. For no good reason other than.

In a sad postcript, this girl went on to lose two of her brothers to cancer at young ages (late teens/early twenties). She had become a career soldier in the army. She was on leave for her brother's funeral when she was involved in a car accident and was killed. I cannot imagine the pain of her mother. I am disgusted with myself for not being a nicer kid to her. :(