Why are there people that act superior to other people, when sometimes they aren’t able to do the same things as the people that they humiliate? Why is it that these types of people have to bring you down, to be able feel that they are better than you? I once had this classmate at my language institute that would brag on and on about being cult and well educated. She would say that she was brilliant in everything; cooking, cleaning, studying, learning languages, crafts, etc... I remember I used to feel so bad when she would humiliate me in front of everybody, because I didn’t know or remember well about things like world history or cooking. Well one day, my language institute had us go out to the countryside to do some volunteer work at an orphanage for a couple of days. All the students were divided into different team groups. Weirdly, I got drafted into the same team as this person, where we had to work together to entertain and take care of the kids. On one of those days, she and I ended up completely alone taking care of the kids. It was an utter disaster at first because she thought that she could do everything herself, I mean she literally told me to get out of her hair because I would just ruin everything. So I just sat to the side in case she needed me. After about 15 minutes, she had a hole in her pants and she was on the verge of crying. I tried helping her, but she just kept shoving me away. After a while, she miraculously got the kids to sit on the floor because she promised to make them a snack if they did so. I offered to help, but again she sent me to my chair as if I were a Kindergartener. So after she put me down once more, she comes to the counter and starts jabbering about how she took cooking classes in New York City and that I should learn from her expertise. Well I thought at first that she was going to make crepes or something. But when she grabbed about 20 eggs and mixed them in a bowl, and started to serve them into cups; I wasn’t quite sure she knew what she was doing. I just kept on just staring at her and shaking my head. Right about when she was about to finish making her “snack”, some classmates came back to help with the kids. They came over and asked if they could help, and she told them to serve the snack to the kids. All of the classmates that were there were looking at her as if it were a joke. I mean why would you serve raw beaten eggs that are in a cup with dots of vanilla on top, to kids? So they asked her this, and she said that is was eggnog. My classmates laughed at this because they thought it was a joke. But when they saw how serious she was about it, the laughing turned to humiliation. They made fun of her because she didn’t even know how to prepare a simple snack for some kids. They said she was a double-face because just a month before she had publicly humiliated me because the cookies that I had made for the class “weren’t good enough for her”, just because they were a bit stiff. So they used this as an excuse to humiliate her. They were acting same way as her even though they supposedly despised the humiliation that she caused on people. Right after the majority of them threw the “eggnog” at her they left. I helped her get up and I tried to help her get cleaned up too, but she just shoved me away. So I got the kids to start playing a game. While they were making teams, I made a couple batches of pancakes for them. After that I took care of the kids alone and everything tuned out fine. But you know what? I realized that day that this classmate of mine would just humiliate other people in the areas where she was lacking because she was jealous that she couldn’t even get to their level. I wasn’t good at cooking, but at least I wouldn’t accidently intoxicate with my food, as she almost did. No one, and I mean no one, is ever going to be incredibly great at the same thing as another person. Everyone is unique, and if you have someone that humiliates you, be glad. Because the majority of the time that means that that person sees you as a threat. It’s that you have an incredible talent for something, that only you possess. -A talent that that person, will probably never be able to have. That’s why these types of people are actually just afraid of being out-shined by you.