NNicholas
A reminder of how we treat others
Jul 03, 2009
This was my reply, today, to a post asking if I judge people by social or economic class:I judge everyone by status; Good or bad! I try to keep the good people in my life and the bad out.
I learned a lesson in high school I have never forgotten. There was a girl who transferred into our school. She was a bit overweight, and her dress and make up was the subject of jokes and ridicule by most of the kids in my classes. They referred to her as "white trailer trash'. My parents would never have allowed me to have ever treated a person like that. besides, I had been fat all my elementary school and Junior high school years, only having lost 80 lbs in my freshman year. About five years after graduation, I ran into this gal at a department store. She had transformed like ugly duckling into a beautiful swan. I could hardly believe how great she looked and what a stunning lady she turned had become. Then she told me something that still haunts me. She thanked me for being the only person in high school who didn't treat her like a freak, which I never saw her as. I felt good knowing that I had not treated her any different than anyone else, but I also felt guilty for not speaking out to those that did. I went back to only a about three high school reunions. At each one there was only one person I wanted to see there, her. She never came, so I quit attending my high school reunions. I would really love to find out, someday, how her life turned out.
Nick
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Oxford, MI
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03/25/2008
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Nov 22, 2008
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