SEL Reflection- Prejudices (:

I have been the shortest girl in class since young.
Till now, I am still the shortest student in class, as everyone knows.
I remember vividly that my friends used to tease me very often,
such as when I was in Secondary 1.

I was in Class 1B'06 of Anglican High School.
I had a classmate named Godwin,
who loved to tease me and my friend who is quite fat.
Everytime he saw us, he would make fun of us.
It was not the first time I was teased because of my height.

As I grew up and matured over the years,
I started to take these in my stride and now,
I could not be bothered with the teasing anymore.
Furthermore, the teasing had decreased a lot.
Only my friends tease me nowadays.

Another incident of prejudice I remember is positive, fortunately.
When I was in Primary School, my Chinese Language was
relatively good in the class, especially when I was in Primary One.
My teacher was quite biased towards me.
We were given exercises to do during almost every lesson.
I was one of the first to finish the exercises
so the teacher told me to sit on the bench at the front of the classroom
and watch the other students. I was told to
take down names of students who were talking.
I was sensitive and I could tell that people disliked me
because of the bias shown towards me.
However, I did not mean it at all.
Till today, I still do not see why they were unhappy at me
since I was just doing what I should be doing.

From the above-mentioned incidents and
several other incidents of prejudice,
I have learnt that there are many types of people in the world
and some have characters that I do not understand or even disliked.
There were people, maybe a lot, that disliked me if not hate.
However, I should bother about anything they say and
I should not let anything they say affect me.
They can have their opinions about me.
I should just take in what they say and
change myself to become a better person.
If I think that what they said about me is not true,
then the more I should not be affected by it.