Tips such as ‘Ignore them’ or ‘Be strong’ contain wisdom but very often we fail to apply them when surrounded by insensitive and merciless leg pullers. Yes, ‘Ragging is a small issue’, yet it often makes you feel miserable, so I am writing here the tips that worked excellently with me.
- Q: Know a simple fact that those who indulge in ragging
are childish fellows. Treat them as you treat children. You will start
enjoying their stupidity. If, amid an uproar of laughter you are able to
genuinely smile, it would be overwhelming. Believe me, a couple of genuine
smiles and casual retorts (i.e. ‘You are talking nonsense’ or ‘I think you
seem to be crazier today’) have the potential to frustrate the entire
bunch.
- W: Be full of ambition. Soichiro Honda had to face
insulting laughter of his instructors and fellow students for a long time
after his piston ring, which he created using his whole wealth, was
rejected by Toyota. If he had cared about that ragging, we would have not
heard the automobile company Honda. Schopenhauer had said it long ago: "Vulgar
people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men."
- E: Don’t keep retorting if a group is ragging you. Let
them pass a lot of comments, this will somewhat tire them and decrease
their interest. At a suitable time, confront the leader fearlessly and
carelessly, your unexpected audacity would knock the stuffing out of him.
Contrary to the popular opinion, many times people enjoy to see their
leader under fire, so the chances for you to get a silent support are
high. And the belief that only excessive or loud talk can help you
overpower ragging is baseless.
- R: You might not be good at repartee. Don’t worry. Your
brisk expressions matter much more than a quick-witted retort said
unconfidently. Just remark fearlessly and casually as said above.
- T: If you have a group ragging you, and you feel that
alone you are helpless, then you are totally incorrect. On the contrary, a
little spark of cheerfulness is enough for you to make them sad because
they will realize your unmoved will and their inability to derive
enjoyment out of you. You don’t know the joy you get by sending a crowded
bunch of leg pullers in a state of unexpected nervousness. Only your
loneliness can offer this opportunity to you!
- Y: Don’t escape your leg pullers, because among other points,
A: within your heart you might feel that you are weak, B: they will hunt
you, and C: as it is rightly said – escaping from a problem is never a
solution. Instead, if the situation requires you to go to them, shock them
by plunging yourself among them energetically and cheerfully. Your body
language plays a key role in holding back the leg pullers. Keep it
dashing.
- U: Know it very properly that your leg pullers are
inflicting losses on themselves. This I understood after worrying and
burning terribly as two people sharply taunted and abused me pretty
continuously. I was so frustrated that I felt like beating myself or
getting violent with them, which they probably wanted. But one day I
thought that they naturally are inflicting losses on themselves by wasting
one of the best God’s gifts, which is time. Had I indulged in taking
revenge, I would have not been able to inflict a tenth part of the injury
that those adult kids caused to themselves.
- I: Thank your leg pullers because they remarkably help
you develop your personality. You hatch out new ways of handling people
and, this, besides making you resilient, sometimes compels you to go
against your personality, which unbelievably hones your soft skills.
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