While I've not broken any rules in any of the leagues I'm in, I do understand what it's like to be judged based on what others have said/heard about you. Not a lot of people know this about me as it is something I simply do not talk about. But back in high school, I had low self-esteem and depression due to abuse I had suffered a few years prior. This led to me being distant from my friends and is, I suspect a contributing factor to my ex in high school breaking up with me. I own that part of me, I won't hide from it. However, after I was already better and actually happy, some former friends of mine flat out were telling others to not hang out with me because all I did was ask for pity. These people that were saying these things to others knew me better than almost anyone in my school, and I was decently popular. Because of what these people were saying, I lost a few friends. I'm very fortunate in that a lot of my friends in HS that I associated with stuck by me and refused to believe what others were saying. No one has the right to be judged based on what others have heard or said about you, as there are two sides to every story. While I don't know you, I feel like I can relate to you based off my experiences in high school.
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