Canadian Artist Shares What Happened After Doing A Facebook Search on Her Childhood Bully

Whether you were bullied or the bully, this will resonate with you.

Jack

• Published in Interesting
• November 22, 2018

Just about everyone has been bullied or been a bully at some point in their life, usually during their schooling. It's all part of growing up within the fierce and primal social hierarchy that is the school yard. Meghan Lands is a Canadian artist who decided she wanted to see what her childhood bully was up to now, many years after school had finished. What she found and illustrated is a deeply profound realization that not all people's experiences are the same as hers, and that not all people looked back on their childhoods in the same way. She decided to illustrate her findings into a comic, which has resonated deeply with others, and gone viral on Tumblr.

It starts with a simple thought.

Backstory seems very middle school.

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Oh the things we thought were important in high school

OK this is bringing back memories now.

Original tactics here.

I'm sure these revelations about the underlying reasons for the behavior have come out of years of dwelling over these parts of her life.

Yep - apple rarely falls far from the tree.

Coping mechanism?

God kids can be cruel to each other.

We all know this feeling...

The artist did well you deal with all of this at a young age.

Seems like a healthy approach

I bet this felt gooood.

But violence is never the answer.

...and here comes the hard part

They're all still friends?

All those people you couldn't wait to never see again.

She's all grown up

Yoga fixes everything

Perspective is everything

I'm not crying, you're crying.

There has been an outpouring of people that Land's comic has resonated with

Jack