He Got Asked To Contribute Between $20,000 And $30,000 To His High School Bully’s Medical Expenses, But He Refuses To Help The Person Who Made His Life Miserable
During this 33-year-old guy’s childhood, he was never really the popular kid in school. He participated in musicals and actually enjoyed learning about academic subjects.
At that same time, he wasn’t particularly interested in sports and also was not super social.
By the time he reached the end of high school, things did start to get easier once he finally made a bunch of friends. However, one of the “popular kids” named Jake still always picked on him.
Apparently, Jake would bully him for everything from his “nerdiness” to his ethnicity and his body.
“I have never forgotten it and constantly resented him for it,” he admitted.
Then, 15 years later, Jake reportedly did something that was “very stupid and immature.” So, his high school bully wound up in a coma for several years.
He, on the other hand, ended up graduating from college and moving out of the country. Afterward, he landed a good job abroad in a major city and earns quite a generous salary now.
He has even since become very accomplished in his field, so he is well-known– and his former school classmates all know that.
“Quite frankly, the fat musical kid ended up the most successful graduate of his class,” he said.
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While his bully was in a coma for many years, though, Jake’s parents and friends covered the medical bills to keep him on a ventilator.
Still, he admitted that he never really felt any sympathy about Jake’s situation and honestly believed the bully had it coming.
Regardless, one of his old friends reached out to him recently– detailing how a GoFundMe campaign for Jake’s medical bills had ended.
So, he learned that Jake’s parents were nearly bankrupt from all of the expenses.
His friend didn’t just reach out to fill him in on the situation, though. Instead, his friend wound up telling him that “everyone would appreciate it” if he contributed a whopping $20,000 or $30,000 toward Jake’s medical bills!
As you can imagine, he was stunned by that suggestion and ultimately just laughed before telling his friend, “absolutely not.”
He pointed out how he worked seriously hard for his money. So, he understandably doesn’t want to hand it over to the one person who made his last year of high school completely miserable.
Ever since he turned down that request, though, he has gotten accused of being a selfish jerk for not helping out Jake despite the fact he can “clearly afford it.”
But what really blows his mind is how his old friend knew Jake mercilessly bullied him, yet he was still asked to pay tens of thousands of dollars.
And quite frankly, he was honest about viewing Jake’s fate as karma.
“I’ve made it in life, and I don’t want to share the spoils with people who tried to belittle me,” he vented.
Still, ever since he refused to help pay for his high school bully’s medical bullies, he’s been left wondering whether that really made him a jerk.
Isn’t $20,000 or $30,000 a massive sum of money to contribute toward a stranger’s medical bills– especially someone who bullied you? Would you ever fund your high school bully’s medical expenses, even if you had the money? Do you think he had a right to refuse? Or was that really a jerky thing to do?
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