Bullies. The worst type of person you shall ever possibly meet. The problem is, if you meet one, there is usually more. For you see, dear reader, bullies are nothing more than pack animals who pick at you and pick at you until there is nothing left but a shadow of the person that stood before. But, pack animals though they are, they are the least noble of all of the others. Even hyenas, the lowest scavenger of them all, has more nobility than a pack of bullies.
You see, the hunting strategy is usually this: first, they do little things. There is usually one at the beginning, you know, the annoyingly evil scumbag who calls you names for no reason, or knows something about you and is exploiting it. Then he/she tells their pack. It may surprise you to know that the female of the sordid little species is the worse because if you try to do anything about it, she will make something up to the person that you have told and put on the innocence act. Anyway, after stage one of the strategy is complete they move to stage two. If you had a good reputation at school/college, the pack will spread malicious gossip about you, destroying the reputation. If that isn't enough they start to taunt you about the gossip, even though they made it up. By now, there will be double of what numbers of the pack there was before. Abject humiliation at their talons comes under this stage. Next comes the violence. This usually occurs when no one is around. They follow you around at a distance and wait for the moment to strike. Then, they pounce, holding you down and beating you and sometimes, in the worst cases sexually assault you. Imagine having to live with this stream, continuously.
That is how they change you from a person to a shadow or ghost. They are nothing more than animals. Animals and killers. I type to you, dear reader, in the hope that you will do something about it. If you know someone who is getting bullied for any reason, help them. The pack will disband if they know that there is someone helping the prey.
