To stand on your own two feet

I was inspired today, I was going along reading blogs, you know how that is, you start junping from oen to another and you end up god knows where reading someone's thought that you probably never will meet or never would have met. More or less as you probably are doing now. Well, I read this post about a guy who when he was little at school he was followed outside by two bullies and he actually attacked first and managed to avoid being hit after all. I thought whe was really brave. Most people are not capable of doing that and much less at that age.

It is very difficult for small kids to defend themselves of harrasment and bullying. I had that problem too when I changed from a private school to a public one back in elementary school. I only managed to stand on my own two feet a couple of years later when I entered high school. It was a truly revealing moment, when I screamed at a guy in first year that if he dared touch my chair again I would rearrange his whole face. (they had taken away my table and my first chair, we had some problems with not having enough furniture of good quality so people tended to grab the best when they went into class). Not only did the guy leave my chair alone, he quickly managed to give back my original chair and table and apologized abundantly. *grin*