I was with my friends one day when we started talking about another girl. To be honest, I was dragged into the conversation and I remembered mocking the girl’s hairstyle. We took nothing of the talk and went to bed after a big laugh about the person in question.

The following morning, we all prepared for class as usual and went our separate ways looking forward to the day’s business at our different departments.  As I walked briskly to the lecture hall,  I heard someone called my name and when I looked back, it was the same girl we spoke about the night before. I stopped while she walked up to me and before we could exchange pleasantries she said ” I heard everything you guys said about me yesterday. You said my hairstyle looked like a toddler’s who was having a birthday party”.

As she uttered those words, I felt the ground melted underneath my feet. With hot flushes spiraling around in my head, I stood fixed on the same spot. What I said wasn’t as bad as the others, I only said a few words which made my friends laugh, but, nothing out of the ordinary. I remember thinking and cracking my head of what was actually said. (more…)