as always bully didn't get any punishment.
Not really sure by what criteria undergoing a complete emotional breakdown doesn't count as punishment.
While you can say it's a punishment but do you think that's enough of a punishment for someone who bullied a person for years?
That would be up to the wronged party to decide, no?
That, and, forgiving and forgetting are two vastly different things.
I was bullied endlessly, from 1st through 12th grade. Small town, same people in my classes every one of those years.
It made me a bitter, jaded, and solitary person.
Then I realized that what had been done to me was never my fault, but holding on to it did me no favors. So I let it go, frankly far too late, for the sake of personal growth.
So, forgive? Yes. Because that was the only way I could cast away the bonds that I'd let others chain me down with, and become who I wanted to be.
Forget? No. Because to do so would be an irredeemable failure to learn something vitally important; in this case, that life is rarely fair, and that there are a lot of people out there who thrive on the pain of others... and that I have the capability to do what I need to do to keep such people out of my life in any meaningful way.
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