![]() This is what “We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves” is about. So whose memory is correct? Was I mean to him and he’s forgotten? Was I only ever mean to him in my head or behind his back? Was I nice towards him but have supplanted these memories with bad behaviour because of complicated feelings to do with my own insecurities? The answer is unknowable. ![]() In fact, he thought of me as a mentor and someone he admired. His response was one of total surprise and bewilderment because as he recalls I was nothing but friendly and helpful towards him. I wrote him a long message apologizing for my inexcusable behaviour in the past. When I received his message I was overcome with guilt recalling the way I treated him. I now recognize I did this in order to boost my own self confidence and try to impress other people as I felt so insecure myself. I have memories of being quite nasty and bullying (verbally, definitely not physically) towards him in the way kids act when they've been bullied themselves. He was also weedier and geekier than I was so an easy target. ![]() He was someone in my boy-scout troop that was a bit younger than me. ![]() Several years ago when social media sites were first becoming a thing and everyone was flocking to MySpace, I received an unexpected message one day from someone I had known as an adolescent. ![]()
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