/lit/ - Literature

>>12740314
In highschool (during classes mostly), from time to time, I used to joke about a girl who was somewhat of a laughing stock of the group because she was extremely short, ugly (perhaps because of some issues during her mom's pregnancy) and with pretty bad hygiene; reason: I was known as a very witty guy, top of the class, and I really liked making the others laugh. She was from a poor family with multiple children. During the last year of highschool, there was a rise in the hostility surrounding her, although she was not unlikable, most people went at her because of her appearance, otherwise she was pretty smart. At a parents' gathering organised by the teacher responsible for the group, between some other things, her mother mentioned while crying that this behavior has to stop because she can't bear to hear her daughter crying in her room everyday after coming home from school.
At that moment there was no realization that these actions can have deep consequences for others, but as time passed I came to understand them, and I will forever despise that fragment of mine, lost in time.