You know when people in your early life treat you like crap because they think they're all big and bad and think that they're better than you. Stoopid right? I know. Stoopid. But then when you're older and more mature and more developed or "attacked by puberty" all of a sudden they treat you like they were your best friends since diaper days. Ya. How do you deal with that? Do you tell them off? Ridicule them? Be nice? What? I was thinking everyone desereve's a second chance but then again, who cares?
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Table turning is so much fun
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I've actually dealt with that a bit myself. Actually it was some guys at my church who bullied me quite a bit when I was a kid. Even as a teenager. But what I concluded is that, if I know that I have changed and grown up quite a bit in the years since then, I should allow them that. There's a chance they might be the same a-holes they were 15 years ago. But there's at least as much chance that they aren't.So if you give them another chance, hoping that they too have changed, nobody loses, right?
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Not necessarily. The person I'm dealing with was such a jerk before that I really don't feel like getting involved with him. But my friend, since it's her cousin, keeps asking me to give him "another chance" or something but I'm thinking no because if I do interact with him he won't be able to sit comfortably for a while. It was that bad. And he was that rude.
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Well...I don't necessarily think you're not giving him another chance is wrong. He blew it. He has to deal with it. You're not obligated at all to give him the time of day. I think the only thing you would want to do is demonstrate that you are a better person than he is (which you obviously are), and you can certainly do that without giving him another chance at a friendship or whatever. Hopefully your friend can understand and support that.
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I doubt that. She's having her sweet 16 and she invited me because I'm "her best friend" and she invited HIM so yeah. I might just be a sour sport and not go.