Bullying part 1

Bullying. There isn’t a human being on the planet that doesn’t know what this word means. As soon as you hit the age to be in school it will happen. Whether you are the victim or the bully, or whether you are an adult who watched it happen you know what it is. So many people, adults and children, around the world and in many homes have to deal with this word. Chances are they have felt the pain of this word at some point in their lives, and probably did it to someone else too. When people hear bullying they think of two children, possibly on the playground or in classes at school. However, only thinking bullying happens in these two places, and only these two places are naïve.  It doesn’t matter what age you are, bullying can still happen, the difference is that when people are older, others feel that they should be able to handle it and are probably being dramatic if they can’t handle it. I remember being in middle school and I think many people would agree with me that at least for girls middle school was one of the worst times to be a kid. Bullying was a commonplace thing and when everyone got aim accounts it became even easier to attack someone at home and not just school anymore. With the internet steadily growing bigger and bigger and invading more homes and more opportunities to invade people’s lives the aspect of bullying grows tremendously as well.  To imagine being a middle school child in this era where it’s extremely easy to get on the internet and harass someone, it would be much worse. I’m sure the feeling would be claustrophobic and one that would feel as if you couldn’t get rid of the person who was making fun of you. It’s sad to think of what that would be like and how you would deal with that. The feeling of not being able to escape what someone was saying, and not only that but being able to have it spread to more people faster without control. Imagine all this is stemmed back to one kid bullying someone else because they are different or just because they want to, it doesn’t seem to be just in the playground anymore does it?