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1 April 2008 09:29*grumble* I really hate April Fool's Day ... A full day devoted to being juvenile, to playing cruel tricks on other people, to acting like pathetic little delinquents. And what gets me the most is that adults pull this shit. I can see it coming from children; after all, it's been my experience that children are often cruel little creatures. But adults should know better -- I mean, they're the fragging grown ups for gods' sake!
As a child I was bullied terribly (I mean to the point that I'm rather surprised I didn't end up in the Bell Tower over it). Sometimes the teachers would step in and stop it -- though more often than not they just looked the other way because it was a part of childhood and I was an antisocial freak anyways (this was well before Columbine and the Trenchcoat Mafia made adults reconsider their stance on bullying and us silent introverts). One thing was guaranteed though; on April Fools Day and on Frosh Day (aka "Let's haze the Minor Niners") all bets were off and we "outsiders" were on our own. That only changed when two students were hospitalized after their hazings (one had severe asthma and was duct taped to a tree in the smoking quad while the other was dosed with Nair and had an allergic reaction).
I never really got over my anger at this condoned cruelty masquerading as "innocent pranks". April Fools day just brings all that anger and resentment up to the surface. I've been told that I should learn to chill out, that it's all innocent fun, but I will bet you anything that the people who are telling me this were never the ones who were bullied.
*sigh* I suppose that with my general lack of faith in humanity, I shouldn't be surprised that this day brings out the worst in people. And yet, every year, I wake up on April 1st hoping that the general populace will have grown a brain and every year I am surprised when I'm disapointed.
April Fool's is a day of nothing more than sanctioned bullying and I *hate* it!
As a child I was bullied terribly (I mean to the point that I'm rather surprised I didn't end up in the Bell Tower over it). Sometimes the teachers would step in and stop it -- though more often than not they just looked the other way because it was a part of childhood and I was an antisocial freak anyways (this was well before Columbine and the Trenchcoat Mafia made adults reconsider their stance on bullying and us silent introverts). One thing was guaranteed though; on April Fools Day and on Frosh Day (aka "Let's haze the Minor Niners") all bets were off and we "outsiders" were on our own. That only changed when two students were hospitalized after their hazings (one had severe asthma and was duct taped to a tree in the smoking quad while the other was dosed with Nair and had an allergic reaction).
I never really got over my anger at this condoned cruelty masquerading as "innocent pranks". April Fools day just brings all that anger and resentment up to the surface. I've been told that I should learn to chill out, that it's all innocent fun, but I will bet you anything that the people who are telling me this were never the ones who were bullied.
*sigh* I suppose that with my general lack of faith in humanity, I shouldn't be surprised that this day brings out the worst in people. And yet, every year, I wake up on April 1st hoping that the general populace will have grown a brain and every year I am surprised when I'm disapointed.
April Fool's is a day of nothing more than sanctioned bullying and I *hate* it!
