LA-ACE Blog post

2. Have you ever been part of a group of people who were unkind to one or some individuals? What was the circumstance? How did you act? What did you feel?


I have been part of a group of people who were unkind to someone. The group consisted of me and two other friends. We were in primary four and there is one particular boy we do not like. He always tops the class and we were all jealous of him. We always play pranks on him like pulling away his chair when he was about to seat and he landed up on the floor, hiding his pencil case and even call him names. But then as time passes I find that what we did was not right and I wanted to stop doing that but my friends threatened that if I stopped doing that, they would not be my friends and ignore me.
One day, I was about to leave to go to the canteen to eat during my recess when my friends stopped me. They told me that they had a plan and they intend to scribble on the front page of that boy’s activity books. I did not want to do it but they threatened me again so I had no choice. They say they would stand outside to guard the place to see if anyone was passing by. Hence, I followed their orders and started scribbling all over his activity books. Suddenly, I heard my name being called. I turned around and my jaws dropped when I saw my form teacher standing in front of me. I looked around trying to find my friends but they are nowhere to be seen. I realised that they must have run away when they saw our form teacher coming. I had no choice but to confess to my form teacher and he scolded me until my eyes turned red. I apologised to him and that boy and I had 5 demerit points while my friends had 3 demerit points. I was punished to do class duty for two whole months. From then on, I learned that my “friends” were not my true friends. I regretted doing all the bad things to the boy. I broke my relationship with them afterwards and even became friends with the boy. I feel very remorseful for all the things I had done and I hope I would not do it again.