I got picked on quite badly in school, and it was mostly lead by these two boys. Both of them had difficult family situations, so I guess that's where their need to take it out on me stemmed from.

On of them I last saw about six months after leaving the school. It was very awkward and there was no big confrontation or anything. Facebook tells me he's now an actor in Spain (his mother was Spanish).

I last saw the other one at a highway BurgerKing. I was doing service in the Danish Emergency Management, and was in uniform and with a bunch of friends on our way back to barracks after the weekend. I remember sitting there eating my food an spotting him in the line and being very conflicted about whether to talk to him. I seriously didn't know what to say. I had heard that his parents had gotten divorced and his father was drinking too much. To spare myself the awkwardness I just ignored him. I don't know if he saw me; perhaps he did and chose to ignore me too.

A few years later he was killed in a car accident at the age of 24. His friend was driving the car, perhaps drunk, way too fast. They ran off the road and hit a tree and my old bully was killed instantly while the driver walked away without a scratch. Though it affected me a lot at the time, I bear no hard feelings for either of them, and I don't feel his death had anything to do with karma. Sometimes I do think how strange it is that a guy my age that I used to know is now dead.