Bullying? Who, me? I had fights in grammar school. That's what it was called waaay back then. As I recollect, around the beginning of the school year, I got into a fight with some guy, and maybe his friends, who thought pushing me around was a good idea. Nope, it was a bad idea. I popped him in the nose. The rest of the year I had no more problems - most of the time anyway. Seems to me that world history backs me up in how I handled being bullied. Bullies bully because they are allowed to bully. A house pet is smaller than you but, enraged it will stand and defend itself. A little girl or boy may be pummeled into the dirt by a bully after fighting back, but usually the bully will back-off and pick on someone who won't defend themselves. A major part of the problem of bullying is that we have become a society convinced that some external power or authority must handle all of our problems, so we often do not even consider handling them ourselves.
Michael
