The Weight of Both Bullying When Measured

Some days ago, a friend of mine and I were having a conversation that has to do with the environment we grew up in as a child, what those environments contributed to our childhood experiences and how or what it could have shaped us to be if our parents had not relocated to a better place.

We had a lengthy conversation on this as it led to a discussion on this prompt of bullying and he shared with me how his environment was filled with cases of bullying left, right and center. Someone of your age could bully you and someone older or younger than you can actually bully you if you're not smart enough to have the first courage in putting up a fight when the bully is initiated.

I explained these so that we can all get to see that these things doesn't just seem to appear in the society all of a sudden but because they have been nursed right from a tender level to a matured sized bully.
It was condoned from the local communities so there is absolutely no way it won't be globally initiated and sometimes I wonder why this whole bullying comes to place.
Is it to show seniority, hatred towards the person or power intoxication?

I remember back then in secondary school, when I was still in junior school and there was this group of 3 girls from the senior school sitting and gisting. They called me with the thought that they wanted to send me on errand to get something for them since it's break time and truly that was it but the only difference was that I was not given money to get the things they sent me but I was threatened to buy them and until I told them that my break time allowance was only 10naira before they reduced what they had sent me that day to the amount I had with me.

Physical bullying goes a long way in victims lives as they get hunted by these memories or even get shaped with these incidents if it was a chronic bullying that was not curbedmmm on time.
However, no matter how serious or bad physical bullying is, it is of no difference with online bullying.
Have you ever seen someone been bullied online? Especially when it is someone who doesn't have this fighting spirit, you end up seeing them cry and getting shattered.

All these trolls here and there, who would devise every means possible just to ensure the victim doesn't have peace unless they quit that account and go faceless on social media..... It's just so alarming that these things have become so rampant that even when this bullying act is noticed, we have minimal rate of people to attack it.

Just that the only difference I see between physical bullying and online bullying is that, as a victim of online bullying, you can easily look away from such person or account or probably block them off if you really think you don't wanna get moved by their dramatic displays but how do you wanna avoid physical bullying except if you leave the space or community for such person or people especially when it has eaten deep in such person that it's now hard to fight back or seek for help.

In all, none is greater or lesser than the other in weight of crimes as their victims are always traumatized by their acts so both physical and online bullying should receive SAME JUDGEMENT AND TREATMENT. Culprits should be served same meal of punishment when apprehended.

I'll be dropping my 🖊️ here on the Hive Learners community prompt

Thanks for reading through 🤗

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