Us vs. Them

The words kept pressing me. The words haunted me back and forth and all my crying was in vain as that seemed to have no effect on the people around me. Oh yes, I remember my olden times. Yes, the times when I was young and was about to explore more into the world and learn about it entirely. But there was a far more menacing opponent that had a name wherever I shined. A name that hooked up with their culture and thus it followed all the normal people in distress, pain and torture and not only did they attack the body; they even attempted to break our minds and hearts. Bullies. Yes, them.

When I was in school, I was always fascinated by the art in things. Whether it was pure art drawings, or the art of a person presenting it, it didn’t matter because I was happy with it. Such art represented comics, manga, toys, heroes, movies, games and whatnot. I gained few friends who were supportive of what I liked and they were indulged into it too; though there were people who hated us because they thought it was ‘kid’s’ stuff and never paid any attention to us. All they cared about what they will drink tonight, who’s party to attend to this week, which dance is better, how would I look good in makeup/bodybuilding. Still they never paid attention to us, so we were far better without them. But apparently, they had friends with them that catered to our pain in general. Their friends whom we used to call ‘The devil’s companions’.

 These devil’s companions never stopped at what they did, they never gave up, unless and until some superior in charge caught them or made them stop. They pulled pranks on us, they drew stuffs on our books, they used to call us name, they used to steal our food/money and all this was mostly ignored by everyone. Moreover, those who ignored it, used to laugh at it thinking they were somehow part of it. They never felt the pain that we had, they never were called names, and they never had to defend their respect in front of others. I had one scenario, where they forced me to miss my bus; all this was done by just stealing my books and not returning them back and making me jump around like a monkey….a freaking monkey to get my books. I wasted 20 years of my life remembering this event.

Though today is not their day and from now on it will never be.

Few days back, I got out from my house and made my destination towards the comic store. Apparently I was happy that the new Spider-Man arc was on display and with proper recommendation from few friends of mine who already owned the copy; I wasted no time in purchasing it. I moved out of the comic book store with a big smile on my face and the chilled excitement to reach home and open up the comic book, when suddenly not far away from the comic store, I saw a big bully, with his friends, teasing a small kid by making the small kid jump to grab his comic book. The kid was crying and it struck me straight into my memories. All this has happened to me. This cannot be happening. This should not be happening; I won’t let the kid suffer. No more.

I picked up a bottle from the street, smashed it into pieces and proceeded towards the bully. With one turn of the bully looking towards me, I grabbed him and uttered the words, “Never again. Never ever” and then I stabbed him. I stabbed him not once, but with all my wasted years on the memory, I stabbed him 20 times and while I did it, all my life’s memories that were built upon the bully turning my life into rot, were flash forwarding in front of me. While I catered to stabbing him more, I was grabbed from behind and put on the ground. I turned back to look two cops over my shoulder and within seconds they started cuffing me.

Here I am today sitting inside an asylum and writing this story to you. You might be me, or him but I don’t care. What I care is that for you to understand. Understand that as much as we want to hate a person, as much as we cannot do anything to make things right, we should never kill. Those are the villains, not us. We are heroes. We shine right through the people and we- we- we- KILL KILL KILL KILL!!! Bullies should be killed!!!