
When I was 9, I remember it vividly, a manipulative little bitch in my third grade class managed to get everyone to be ''against Anna''. Yes, everyone in my class was against me. That meant they wouldn't talk to me or look me in the eye or play with me during playground time. This little girl managed to convince everyone in my class (about 8 or 10 children) to do what she wanted. I was always a nice little girl and I swear on my daughter's life, I had done nothing to deserve that. Yet, I had to put up of a few days without any friends because of Valesca. Let's call her Valesca, why not?
She then got a very strong ally against me: a girl we'll call Chris for the sake of this post only. Chris and Valesca made sure no one talked to me, looked me in the eye or played with me during playground time. I was really really really sad back then and I told the principal. When the principal came to our class and asked ,''what's going on here?'' , Valesca promptly answered:''we're all against Anna''. The principal went on to ask,''why?'' and Valesca didn't even know the answer :''I don't know, we just are.''
I am now 37 years old and though I remember what it was like to be ostracized from a whole community (yeah, right, a community of 8 or 10 people), I have no regrets because I did nothing wrong. I was and am the kind of person who apologizes for her mistakes, but one can only apologize to a certain extent. There are things that cannot be erased or forgotten. If I see Valesca or Chris in the streets when I'm in Brazil, I usually say ''hello'' and/or make small talk. I am polite and I am also a grown up, but I haven't forgotten what they did. I just don't care anymore because I am too old to care about this kind of crap.
The reason why I decided to talk about this today was that I was going through jtv channels and saw a girl that looked a lot like one of those two girls and it all reminded me of the past.
I like venting on this blog. I like being able to write whatever I want and having some control over some parts of my life. I like ''playing with my blog''.
Ever since I made this blog I have added and removed stuff from it at least on a monthly basis. I get the nice stamps, put them up and then remove them... I sometimes find a feature that I like and then I add it to see how it will do on my channel like the geomaps, for instance. I decided to keep them because they tell me where people are reading my blog from. I have added and removed the music feature a couple of times. I find it a bit hard to have music on here because I get sick of the songs after a while and then they just start to annoy me. This week I took out the top commentators feature because it wasn't working properly anymore. It was nice to have it for a while, I got to know who was truly interested on my blog and I got to see who commented the most. Lexiy, Lia and Lih were amongst the ones who commented the most. They were awesome!
I also had a nice section with my youtube videos on my blog, but I decided to substitute that for a jtv link to my channel.
Playing with these features really ''kills time'' and helps me spend my days whenever there is nothing else to do but sit here at this desk and use the pc.
So, as for Valesca and Chris, who were the super stars of this post, I haven't seen them for a long time and I don't care if I ever see them again, honestly. All I want is my peace of mind and I have it when I am left alone. I disabled the anonymous comments feature from my blog so only people with blogs could comment and I think it was the best decision I could have made. I have made my blog private a couple of times, but I always ''open'' it again because I like knowing that people will read my blog. It doesn't matter what they think about me or what I write, I like knowing they're reading. Valesca and Chris will most likely never read this, which is great because they might recognize themselves in this story. You know...if the shoe fits...