Don’t Let Defensiveness Stand in the Way of Personal Growth [PsychCentral.com]

Samantha Sangenito 4/1/164:00 AM

I can remember watching the popular girls in my elementary school bully another student, I’ll call her Megan, because they thought she was “weird.” They would say rude things to her all day, making fun of her hair, her drawings, the way she spoke. And Megan would just sit there silently through it all, not even looking at them. She’d keep doing her homework, drawing, playing. Sadly, the other kids and I didn’t make any effort to help her, lest the mean girls turned their sights on us.

Megan was turning the other cheek, but I just didn’t get — not then. I figured they were teasing her because she didn’t fight back. I promised myself I’d always fight back. Of course that only got me into a whole new kind of trouble — Defensiveness.

[For more of this story, written by Sarah Newman, go to http://psychcentral.com/blog/a...-of-personal-growth/]

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