Blog Prompts

Prompt: "Have you ever been part of a group of people who were unkind to a one or some individuals? What was the circumstance? How did you act? What did you feel"

I had once been in a part of a group of people who were unkind to their classmates. It happened during Primary 6. Me and my friends were all part of the so-called "Class soccer team", whereby every recess, we would go to to the field to play soccer with other people. However, in our team, there was a person called Aidan who did not know how to play soccer. He had a passion to play soccer every recess but no one told him that he was not really that good yet. Aidan, on the other hand, knew that he was terrible in soccer and was glad that his classmates allowed him to join in the fun. One soccer match, my class was playing 8 on 6 with another class. Our class had 8 people and theirs had 6. No one, wanted to be the goal keeper, so a boy called Paul from our class said, 'Hey, Aidan. Go be the goal keeper". Aidan did not want to be the goal keeper as he feared that he might cause the team to lose and also, he did not want to break his spectacles which always happens during the times he was the goal keeper. He was actually a better striker than a goal keeper and everyone knew that. Paul, on the other hand, did not know how to play in the first place and always fouled people. He was actually the cause for the losses in our team. No one said that Aidan and Paul were terrible as they did not want to hurt their feelings. When the match started, Aidan was the goal keeper and Paul was the so-called "Attacker". An attacker should be in front but Paul wanted to be a greater help and be the man of the match so he went behind to defend. He scored an own goal. It was his fault but he still blamed Aidan for being lousy. The two quarreled and in the end, we resolved the problem by telling them the truth. Paul was angry and hurled a lot of abuses while Aidan accepted the fact because he knew from the start. Paul walked off angrily....