If someone bullied you when you were younger, would you want to get back at them now?

I beat the hell out of my sister and it was magical ;)

@blueberry_kid, did you bully someone or were you bullied? Your question read as if you bullied others. Shame on you!

I don’t think of revenge anymore, I believe in Karma:D

@AmWiser OOOPS! Im sorry! I meant to put “I have been bullied”. Sorry! No, I don’t bully anyone.

I was the fat kid growing up, so I experienced my share of bullying. I don’t feel any need to get revenge, however. Revenge would really just mean more pain for me. Those kids that bullied me do not exist any longer. They are just adults like me. They suffer, they get sick, they die. What could I possibly do that would make up for what they did to me? Nothing. My “revenge” is really just the fact that I have moved on to lead a healthy life, get married to a beautiful woman, and have three amazing kids.

I taught my kids to respond swiftly and with sufficient force to send a clear message do NOT F@#$ with me! Their smiles after school told me how well that system works.

Nope.

No one ever bullied me. I was an only child and a hulking giantess in school so I could probably smash anyone who tried.

I am forty years old and there are still two individuals from my school days that I wish I could run into now.

I was the only British kid in a Spanish school, there was a fair amount of bullying before I was 12–13 or so. However by the age of 13 I was almost 6ft tall and they were not.

I did get revenge, and it was good. The most satisfying one was a guy called Eugenio, when I was 8 years old he was 18. He used to spend his time trying to cheat children out of their marbles, torturing small animals and handing out random beatings. When I was 15 years old or so I found out he was leaving the town, so me and my brother paid him a visit before he got the chance to leave.

Now days I am not interested in getting revenge on bullies, I got my revenge years ago. There is one guy, who if I ever see again, I’m chasing after him and going to jail for murder, but that is nothing to do with bullys.

No. I learned from a young age that every bully has his/her issues. They can be abused by other kids at home or their parents threat them like crap or things like this.

Never been bullied so i’ve really no idea. Although two points spring to mind….
1) Harbouring a grudge for that long means the bully still wins.
2) People change, kind of an invalid grievance then.

No I wouldn’t. What a waste of time and energy that would be.

I learned to stick up for myself when I needed to with bullies, but once I did, I had to otherwise let it go, because why create drama for myself? Happy people aren’t bullies. Bullies are suffering people, and are lashing out in their pain, even if they think they aren’t. Why create more suffering with revenge? Anyway, revenge fantasies don’t hurt the bully, they hurt the person who’s stewing and churning up anger in their own guts.

For years, I was the “fat kid”. It was horrible. I was fat, ugly, and the other kids would beat me and tell me “you’re stupid, you’re ugly, hahahaha haha faaaaat giiiiiirl”. I hate their guts. Most of them were boys, and that makes me hate them even more. I swear, I’d torture them and kill them, if I could. I beat some of them later, but not all of them, and not the way I wanted to. But it’s really nice to see them cry. Like babies. HA HA.

That doesn’t mean I don’t want to kill those kids.

ps. I’m not fat anymore. Ha. And if they could see me now, they’d be sooooo jealous. Ha.

I and a bunch of other girls were bullied by a dirty whore who got AIDS, and she’s dead. Karma already got her ass. And I’m not ashamed to say she got what she deserved.

Success is the best revenge.

Q: What does a bully call a nerd 10 years after graduation?

A: Boss!

Not particularly. Even if I did, a lot of them have been expelled in recent years..

Karma has worked reasonably in my favor since those days when I was a toothpick in school. One of the offenders was killed in a car wreck some years ago so I have to believe a couple of the others may have had some rough sledding along the way. That, and the fact a couple of them are quite a few years older and weren’t all that bright as youngsters so they gotta be getting old and fucked up,
like I am.

I would of a few years back…..now they are like me, an old men..So I let the be.

And what would I do, exactly? Knowing how successfull at life and love and family I am is enough.

I don’t want to get back at anyone, but I am concerned about what they might be doing to others now, and if there were an anti-bully police, I would fink out some likely suspects.

However, like Cruiser suggested, when kids bullied me, I tended to show them enough force that they left me and my friends alone thereafter.

Also, as a bullyish bad play pattern with one other tall kid, I did tease another short kid when we were all in 2nd-3rd grade together – we would call him small, laugh when he got mad, and sometimes “playfully” chase him or imprison him in the top of a tower on the school playground. But we didn’t beat him up or steal from him and we meant it to be fun (he went along with the game a lot) though we should have stopped and not teased him when he was getting upset. And we were all friendly after that, and he was one of my better friends in middle school and even after he left the school, though he did remember we were jerkish to him, and so do I.

Oh, and there was a kid we tortured in 5th and messed with through 8th grade, and made fun of through 12th grade. But he was intentionally annoying quite a bit – a bit of a masochist maybe. He asked for it in a variety of ways. I don’t think it quite follows the pattern of “bullying” – more like when someone is annoying and messes with and annoys you on purpose, and you annoy and punish him back.

No, I’ve matured and have better things to worry about.

I cut off contact with a bully that still wanted to be friends- she was a weird one. 22 years later, I found out through someone who ran into her that she’s still snarky about me—among other things, she sarcastically wondered if I ‘had become the faaa-mouus writer that I wanted to be, harhar!’ I’ve not said anything to her since I saw her at a wedding 15 years ago so she’s reflecting herself, just like she really did in high school.

I should feel satisfaction that she’s still stuck in middle school and running her mouth, but I don’t. I felt icky. But I had to smile at what she chose to be snarky with—I am published, but I have no need to find her to tell her that.

I’m with @YoBob I married a man who became rich.

I already have: The best revenge is living well. I’m there.

No.

I was bullied often enough as a kid and a teen, and even in my work life as an adult by a particular person who just seemed to want my head on a platter. However I’ve never wanted to get back at anyone. Sure I fantasized about it a lot, but when I would to really think about it, I didn’t feel any desire for revenge. Mostly fear, and I just wanted these people to leave me alone lol.

—Are you…really…symbeline??

Yeah I’m actually a wuss haha.

I was the advocate (the enforcer toward bullies) so neither I nor those around me were ever bullied but I’ve witnessed many of them (just before their worlds were shattered) and I can tell you truthfully.. They looked and acted like cartoon jackasses in my eyes (hilarious!).. Now that it’s over and you’ve grown wiser from those encounters, why in the world would YOU now want to look like some cartoon jackass?

I don’t dig on revenge.