Have you been hurt when you were a kid?
By ReenaDKL
@ReenaDKL (206)
Mauritius
August 20, 2008 7:48am CST
I remember when i was around 7-8 years, i had a minor surgery at the hospital. As a child i was not that cute nor pretty. I was from a middle class family (still am anyway) and my clothes etc were nothing posh. What really did hurt me at that time (and i still remember that) were the attitudes of 2 nurses. They were so caring with 2 other girls who were kind of very pretty, cute etc...
On the day we were to leave (we were being treated for the same throat problem..so we all left on the same day), the nurses were combing our hair...one of them told me that i was ugly...that the other two were so pretty, their dresses were pretty compared to my plain one. I still remember how she was scolding at me and pushing my head while combing it..i was very shy when i was a kid...really timid around people. I still have a huge pain inside when i think about that...it's been more than 20 years but i still remember that. I think it marked me. I really wish no kid has to bear insults like that from strangers nor close ones...
Did you ever experience anything like this? How you feel about it now?
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3 responses
@narayan2006 (2954)
• India
20 Aug 08
DearFriend,I do feel your agony and sad experience, you passed through in your childhood days.Such discriminative and unethical practices prevail in all strata of society.such behaviour is normally expected from those people having no humanitarian and divine outlook and whose mind is steeped in ignorance of human and spiritual values. I have experinced such biased and discriminatory treatment by my teachers in my school,doctors in hospital,priests in temples,servers in hotels and in many other occasions.I do feel pity on these people for their ignorance and pray God to enlighten them with divine wisdom.We need not feel timid or insulted in this situations.It is a fact of life.I simply ignore them and forget,because there are many valued things,we need to give attention to. Have a nice day!!
@ReenaDKL (206)
• Mauritius
22 Aug 08
Hi...thank you so much for such deep thoughts. Yes, i have gone through all these kinds of experiences too... even at the airport once...
I sometimes think these events are meant to make us stronger and maybe not repeat the same mistakes we endured...yet when i was at the hospital as a kid it was really painful...i grew up thinking i was such an ugly little girl...
Thank God i've overcome that...
@narayan2006 (2954)
• India
14 Nov 15
@maggs224 Thanks for appreciating. Let us interact more in twitter.
Have a nice day.
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@maggs224 (2320)
• Alicante, Spain
10 Nov 15
@narayan2006 Very well put, and you are right these sort of people are to be pitied.
@jonesy123 (3948)
• United States
20 Aug 08
Wow, that was rude of them. I remember being in the hospital intensive care unit in a catholic hospital. All the nurses were nuns. They were polite but with a rigid all business kind of attitude. There were no kind words. I was only five and my family was a two hours drive away. They couldn't and were not even allowed to be there every day. I was heartbroken about the lack of love and care I experienced there.
Those were the days. Now they know that patients progress better with TLC, especially kids. Nowadays your parents would sue the hospital for discrimination unless of course you didn't tell them what happened. It was heartless to say something like that to you in the first place but it's worse to say something like that to a sick child in their care.
If it helps, you might want to return to the hospital and look up those nurses. They might still be there. Let them know how much their attitude hurt you at the time and how they had no right on earth to say something like that to you or treat you like that. Let them know that their behavior may have destroyed a child with less self-confidence than you had at the time. Tell them they should be ashamed of themselves and should think about how many little lives they might have devestated with their attitude throughout their career as nurses (you are most likely not the only one who received that treatment). It's just not right what they did, period.
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@ReenaDKL (206)
• Mauritius
20 Aug 08
Thank you so much for your response!
Yeah there has been so many times when i wanted to go there and tell them how hurt i've been and still am in fact with their heartless attitude. But the thing is i don't even know their names nor their faces...it's kind of blur, but i remember the essential parts...the parts that hurts the most...thnx again for the reply :) take care dear!
@maggs224 (2320)
• Alicante, Spain
10 Nov 15
Like you I was never cute or pretty as a child and was on the receiving end of hurtful remarks that I carried forward into my adult life. When someone is like that it shows us more about them than it does the person they are being critical of.
Like @narayan2006 said they are the ones that need to be pitied. For your own well being you need to forgive these nurses, or you will continue to carry the hurt they caused. What they did and said was not right and was hurtful, but unlike you they have probably not thought about it since. Your life and time is too precious to waste on holding on to this poison, please let it go.
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