Posterous Prompt 1

Have you ever been part of a group of people that were unkind to one or more individuals? Describe the circumstances. What caused you to behave the way you did? How did you feel then? How do you feel about the circumstances / events in retrospect?



I have been in this kind of situation or have seen this kind of situation several times before. During the incident, there would also be this person in the whole group who is segregated, ignored. From his facial expressions and actions, I could see that he wanted to join this group in engaging a discussion or just playing with them, but was actually instead, discriminated against and chased away from the pack. Up to now, I still cannot understand why people would discriminated others so much. In this case, the guy being discriminated against did not do anything at all to irritate this group of people, but was still singled out. However, because I found that "the situation was none of my business", I did not stand up for that guy.

I find it enraging and weird how people would actually pick upon and "bully" these people when they've done nothing at all. All of us are humans, are no human's life is worth more than another. How these people are actually treating this guy, I feel quite pissed at their actions. Everyone in the world needs friends, be it you or me. For those people who actually have lots of friends since they were born, maybe because their wealth attracted these people, who would never be able to understand the loneliness of someone who is being ignored and thus, become the one ignoring and telling others to segregate this particular person. Quoting from a famous person, ""Whoever says Friendship is easy has obviously never had a true friend!" This quote would be especially applicable to these people; those who were spoon-fed since young.