Hello Sangat,
I was just wondering how a young sikh girl like me should deal with being bullied.
I was bullied at school, i had rumours spread about me and had some good friends tell lies and horrible things about me to everyone. One of my good friends started to tell all of her friends things about me, in turn they and other girls were nasty to me, once i saw them laughing at me and lots of people have told me that they called me ugly. They gave me nasty looks, made nasty comments and generally made me feel terrible.
This particular friend, she has many young sikh male friends and she went as far as telling them things about me, just because they were sikh and she was hoping they'd know me from going to the same gurdwara. She told them very personal things, like, how i had to see a therapist and i had to take medication and i know they were all probably laughing at me. Inside my own Gurdwara. I'm scared to go there just incase i see them.
I have never fully recovered from my experience of being bullied. Im very afraid of these types of people, especially girls. Sometimes i feel really helpless and i know its wrong to feel this way and sometimes i feel angry, which is also wrong. I really want know how i can deal with this.
Can anyone shed any light on some sikhi views on this, maybe something i can read that will make me feel happy.
Thank you everyone