In the streets of Farroupilha 🎼
RagMig and I studied together until the 8th grade, ✨yeah, fun fact we went to the same elementary and middle school✨ what was not fun is that she was bullied through all elementary school (not by me) and then I got bullied a lot on 6th grade (I spent 6th grade in America). Kids would bully us for the weirdest shit, some would say RagMig and her mom were witches who practiced voodoo and other things that, to be honest, we didn’t even know what those things meant, they pushed her down the stairs and verbally abused her. Me, being a Latina in 2008-09 in America, got called all sorts of things, including terrorist, they made fun of my thick legs and ankles, made fun of my accent, my curly hair, my height, the music I listened to (even though they never heard me listening to Brazilian music), besides being condescending all the time when speaking to me, xenophobia at its finest between kids. I said all this to paint you a picture, so you could really take what I’m gonna say now and let it sink in.
1. Open your eyes and see that there are all sorts of people in the world and what may not be appealing to you, might be somebody else’s dream.
2. Don’t let the traumas from your past define your future. (You might need a therapist for this one)
3. In the end of the day, what matters the most is how you feel about yourself, don’t let other people’s negativity ruin you, you’re much stronger than people in your life made you believe you were.
So the ending to that story is that don’t be ashamed of being exactly who you are, we had basically all the people who made fun of us come back and invite us for dates, wanting to become our friends, buying our content etc
🚨Bullying is not intimidating, what’s really intimidating is confidence 🚨
@missy @rambo
