Wednesday, March 14, 2007

recently something disturbing caught my attention at school.

everyone in school has a particular clique that he/she belongs to. so do i. within this clique of mine, there is this girl. her name is B(names have been changed to protect the identity of the person and assuming that u are dumb enough to not able to deduce it from all the given info).

no...its not abt an entanglement of love triangle. definitely not. rather its abt something that happened to her.

well, she is one of the more well nourished girls around in campus. and yeah, everyone in the gang is quite alright with it and all to the point that we are actually quite comfortable with one another. maybe abit too comfortable. there will always be consistent jokes abt her size and stuff. however, none is actually taken too seriously by both the proposer and reciever. she usually joins in the fun and laugh along, although it does bother her.

here is wat the problem is. the frequency of such jokes have rocketed quite a fair bit. seriously, we arent the first gang of frens to dish it to her like that. her ex-colleagues used to do that to her as well. wat really bugs me is that she seems to be enjoying it quite a fair bit since it rocketed.

i am not saying that she should go all out and kill everyone that dishes her jokes or to take it to heart everything. however, isnt it abt time she give a firm stand on this issue? is she trying to gain more attention towards herself? OR maybe she thinks its her only way of 'fitting' in? did we put her in this situation first? shld she probbably stop the abuse on her pride?

well, from my point of view, it aint stopping. cos she hasnt realised that her pride is being beaten to a pulp. the proposers are jus doin it cos they think she enjoys it. neither one is making any sense. usually its only righteous to 'save' the unfortunate and to undo the 'wrong'. however, is it a save and a wrong if none thinks of it as such?

I dun mind a joke or 2 abt really sensitive issues, like my receding hairline. seriously, who doesnt have it? however, can we really find it in our capacity to joke it off with a firm stand or to jus simply make a joke out of it and recognise that it is touchy for the recipient?