Teenagers, true and funny story
- Naveeda Khoshbo
- May 25, 2021
- 2 min read
Updated: May 26, 2021
Photography by Naveeda Khoshbo
I went to a local shop to buy groceries, it was around 08:30 pm. It was getting dark. I was a bit ill too and I was in a deep thought.
A group of teenagers are at the front of the local shop and talking rather loudly, so I hear them say the following:
Teen: There it is... let’s do it.
Teen: Wait … Wait!
I kept walking....
Teen: Why are you such a b****?
I assumed they were talking to me, I turned my back on and looked at them, they pretended like as they were talking with each other.
I entered the shop and I heard them laughing I still thought it wasn’t about me.
After buying some fruit and vegetable I wanted to go to Tesco to buy a bottle of milk.
Photography by Naveeda Khoshbo
I felt something behind my shoulder, when I turned my back, I saw a broken egg near my feet. It was dark, I didn’t understand the situation.
I bought a bottle of milk wanted to go to home. While I was crossing the street, they hit me with more eggs and started laughing. I stopped and looked at them furiously.
They threw more eggs and ran!
I was angry and wanted to call the police, the shopkeeper from the shop came out gave me some tissues. He told me they are teenagers and sometimes they do these ridiculous things just for fun. I shouldn't mind it; they are teenagers' police can't do anything.
Video by Naveeda Khoshbo
He was right! I remembered the bus incident where a group of school students were laughing and playing truth or dare in the bus, and one student had to dare and pull hair of a lady sitting Infront seat, and the teenager did pull her hair! looking back, at that moment it was indeed funny for me, and I laughed a lot at that time.
I didn't understand if it was a funny game or bullying.
I asked Khalil Momand researcher, writer and lecturer at Stanmore college about defining bullying behaviour:
"It is important that young people understand what bullying is and equally as important, what it is not e.g. falling out between friends, which young people students (and parents) can sometimes confuse as bullying behaviour" he said.
Khalil Momand/ Photo sent by interviewee
"people who bully maybe part of a group that thinks bullying is okay, people who bully are insecure and have low self-esteem" he added.
Research suggests that indirect bullying has far more of a detrimental impact on the emotional well-being of a young person than any other type of bullying, including more explicit forms such as physical or verbal bullying (Benton:2011).
If somebody physically hurts you, or verbally abuses you, that’s bullying.
Bullying affects over one million young people every year in the UK, the study by charity Ditch the Label in 2019 found that a fifth of young people in the UK have been bullied.
Bullying can make you feel isolated, anxious, furious and lacking confidence.
Here's what you can do if you are being bullied.
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