We often tend to look at things and judge them immediately according to what we see with our eyes. Although this may be beneficial in some cases, because we do use our sense of sight to sum up situations, it can also lead to us judging somebody unfairly. There may actually be cases that we can remember when we were judged unfairly in this way as well. That is the subject of the following fictional story, when a young girl was being bullied in school for being ‘stupid’. When somebody decided to look behind-the-scenes and see what was actually taking place, she learned more than she ever thought possible.
I had this girl in my class and she was considered to be really dumb. She’d ask a ton of questions in class, which everybody would consider to be “stupid” and “silly” and even the teachers would often taunt her but she’d never stop asking.
But the thing was that she’d almost always top the class examinations and everyone was confused. They all thought she was cheating and stuff and obviously even the teachers were very biased because she wasn’t so intelligent in class, and she was regularly accused of cheating.
But nobody could prove that she was actually cheating but the whole class and teachers totally believed that she did.
I’m pretty socially awkward so I never really talked to her, but she was leaving school this year and I was genuinely curious about how she was so good during exams and how she didn’t let everyone’s remarks affect her. She always used to sit and hang out with only one girl, and she told me that that friend of hers was severely socially anxious and she’d lag in studies because she couldn’t bring herself to ask doubts in class or ask for help from others.
So they had this system where during lectures her friend would write down any question she had, and she would ask them for her. And I was just so touched.
I don’t know, but it really changed the way I looked at people. This girl endured taunts and jeers and borderline bullying for being “stupid” when she was actually really smart and could easily have refused to ask such questions for her friend but she did. And brushed off everything others would throw at her for her friend. It just really changed me in some way.
