In junior high I was the girl that all the mean girls picked on. I'm talking go-out-of-their-way-to-make-my-life-a-living-hell picked on. Had no friends; those girls made sure of that. More than your run-of-the-mill awkward adolescence. I moved on, had a great time in high school and college and have gone on to have a somewhat normal life. But those two years were hell. When I first saw "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" nearly 10 years afterward my first thought was "God I wish I could do that about junior high."
About a year ago two of the meanest girls friended me on FB. I was over it and not afraid of them anymore so I accepted but we've never actually spoken to each other. Big elephant in the room.
So for some reason today I decided to put this to bed and wrote them an email saying that I was glad to see they were doing so well, and that I hold no animosity toward them for what they did, but that they truly did make life miserable for me and I wanted to know why. It's been over 13 years so I didn't really expect them to apologize. But I asked them to help me put this to rest. I didn't expect them to respond. If they'd ignored it I would have understood and not pushed the issue. I mostly just wanted to get this off my chest.
Not only did they both respond, they respond immediately. With profuse apologies. They both said they've regretted what they'd done, when they look back at themselves in those years they don't like what they see, and that they really hope I can forgive them. These responses were independent of each other. I never in a million years thought I'd ever say that to me. I replied to them both thanking them for their words, which mean more to me than I could ever say (here or to them) and that as far as I was concerned this was in the past and I would never bring it up again. I cannot tell you the flood of emotion that came over me. They aren't bad people. I'm so happy and I feel like such a weight has been lifted.
Just wanted to share
Courtesy of megk8oz
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