Online Or Offline, It Still Hurts.

I came by this topic about four different times before I finally decided to write on it, and it's not because I didn't have what to say but I was just pondering on the best way too. Because it's a very deep one. Talking of online bullying and physical harassment. In all honesty both are weighty.

Now, when we talk about physical bullying, we know that is direct, a direct attack that happens right there where you are. Maybe someone talks down on you, hit you, embarrassed you and all in a public place. There are even times it can happen in the presence of someone who could have helped you or given you an opportunity for something and then they get to witness that kind of thing. Which even they can't even say who was right or wrong, but that impression, that scene that they witnessed would make them withdraw.

And I say that because it's something a neighbor of mine has experienced before, he was going to an interview on that day when something happened, he was mistaken for someone else and people had gathered to bully, harass and embarrass him, meanwhile the CEO of the company he was going too passed by as at the time and saw it, later they met in the office and the CEO was like, are you not the thief form the other time, he tried explaining but they wouldn't have it.

Online bullying on the other hand is not small too. Because the online space is not small at all. Just a comment or a post can go viral. Even if you made a mistake with it or didn't sound the way you're supposed too. But then, it's gone already. And people who know you and those who don't know you start having different opinions about you. And we know how this online people go about their things,. insults here and there, various opinions flying around and all, and that's how something so small will gain wings and fly far and wide.

So, both of them can affect you in ways that hit you real deep. They can even make an individual turn into something else. Some lose their peace, some get depressed, some get withdrawn, some become scared.... To scared to even show up in the online space again, or even in the streets. And these things can also affect one like I said earlier about opportunities. Someone can just remember a time or moment when you were harassed, or recall something you were dragged in or dragged on online sometimes before and when an opportunity comes that you could have been picked, such will surface and you get denied of it, not because you're not qualified, but because the past came up.

So, about if one is worse than the other, I honestly can't say. Pain doesn't have two names. Pain is pain, if I comes from the online space or from someone who's with you physically... It still hits you. So, both should be taken seriously, both should be handled very well, both have their effects either psychologically or anyway, both should be stopped, both should be taken with iron hands as both have the ability to destroy, break and mar, either in public or online space.

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