A model’s high school bully apologized on social media eight years after they finished high school.
Mina Gerges, who lives in Toronto, posted a screenshot of a message he got from someone who bullied him in high school.
My highschool bully just messaged me to apologize and tbh this is the kind of energy I need in 2019 🙌🏽 pic.twitter.com/BKQ5B9Md7Z
— Mina Gerges (مينا) (@itsMinaGerges) December 29, 2018
Gerges said that he talked with the bully and asked him why he apologized out of the blue.
He said that he “should’ve been kinder” when they were in high school.
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I messaged him back and asked him why he thought about it 8 years later and he said he felt really bad about it for a while, should’ve been kinder instead, and wished he’d done it sooner. We love growth!
— Mina Gerges (مينا) (@itsMinaGerges) December 30, 2018
Related: A gay kid was repeatedly hospitalized after being bullied. Now he’s suing the school.
Gerges’s Twitter fans loved it.
The healing power this has and would have for so many people. pic.twitter.com/utxfvtamCC
— ✨NASA✨ (@THEYCALLM3SLAY) December 29, 2018
I had this happen to me once and it still fills me with such good feeling thinking about it. I’m so glad for you.
— Melissa Bright (@clutternkindle) December 30, 2018
— Taylor Henderson (@cornbreadsays) December 30, 2018
Shame more don't do that
— Daniel Murphy (@DannyIWR) December 30, 2018
— lala (@Lae_brown) December 30, 2018