Sammy

Ok, this is going to be a very brief post, but I felt like this was a story worth telling. Recently I've been dealing with a lot of harrassment, and I was starting to feel pretty down about it, but then I remembered this story my dad told me about his friend's little girl, Sammy.

Jaime, my dad's friend, was chaperoning a field trip for Sammy's school. If I remember correctly, Sammy is in fourth or fifth grade, and her courage is inspiring to me. The class bully was picking on another kid. This bully was not unlike any other bully. Bigger, bulkier and more intimidating than the other kids. After hearing him make fun of one of her peers, Sammy walked right up to that bully. She got two inches from his face and said "What did you say?" the bully's response? "N- nothing, Sammy." She smiled and said "That's what I thought."

Sammy. When I grow up I want to be just like you.