Joshan the not so Great

Tantrums, Tantrums

When I was in year 6 in my old school we had a presentation for the whole school to see. We all did a wonderful piece of art and we left pieces of paper for people to comment on our artwork. My best friend Joshua had done the best picture in the whole year so, naturally his artwork got a lot of comments. One 6 year old who was not so great at spelling wrote a few scribbles that looked something like "Good Job Joshan" .

Then everyone in the year started calling Joshua "Joshan", the name was easy to remember and quite catchy we thought, we all liked it except for Joshua. I'm sorry to say that I was one of the people who were most actively involved in getting others to call him Joshan.
Joshua liked it for a while but it must have become tiresome for him as he soon began to complain. We still called him Joshan despite his pleas and this appeared to annoy him a lot, we thought this was funny as Joshua threw great tantrums.

I'm not sure how much Joshua was hurt by this. He seemed to maintain healthy self-esteem throughout this period. Maybe it just annoyed him and was just another thing that he faced in life. He resolved to not answer to the name Joshan, but this was impossible as no-one called him Joshua or by his preferred nicknames Joe and Josh.I would liken it to homework: something that you don't really like but you have to put up with.

 This was still going on as I left my school to come to ISKL and I therefore do not know how this situation developed following my departure for KL. I hope that these developments played out to Joshua's advantage and that he is no longer troubled by such behaviour. I have apologised to Joshua previously and still regret my actions.

Today, on reflection, I would definitely stop calling someone by a disliked nickname once they had told me to stop. I would also strive to come up with a nickname which I, and most importantly they, liked. I would also try to stop other people from calling a person in this manner.
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2 Goals that help everyone:

1. I will try to be openly friendly with everyone I meet.
2. I shall find out how to say a few words of Korean and other frequently used languages at school, so I can make others feel welcome and surprise them.

This is
AlexK
Signing out