Bullying part 4

This will be the last part of the bullying blogs. I wrote these blogs not to harp on people about teasing others or to throw statistics in people's faces that I am sure have been on the news or in the paper or somewhere that is easily seen. My point is to possibly wake some people up to the reality of what impact you have on people's lives. We are going to college for some of the people reading this, and in college try and make a promise to yourself to be more open to people. Don't ridicule someone because they are different because you never know when that is their last straw, when they no longer can do life anymore. I once read a book called "Thirteen Reasons Why," by Jay Asher( I truly reccomend this by the way) and it was about a girl who had committed suicide but not before creating 13 tapes that were to be sent to every person on a list that had some impact on why she decided to commit suicide. It went through her story of how everything ended up linking together and causing one massive situation that she couldn't handle anymore. That book truly shows that you never know what someone is dealing with outside of the environment you see them in. You don't know what they deal with when they go home, or what they have to handle in other classes. We have so little time in some people's lives and do you really want that little time to be you bullying them or making them feel inferior to you for whatever reason?

What people chose to say to others does hurt, that saying, "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names can never hurt me," Is wrong, it can hurt you. It is not okay to chose someone out of a crowd and make them feel alone or inferior, because chances are what you are making fun of them about they probably can't change. If you do anything in life at least try to remember that you may think its funny but that person probably doesn't and would you want to wake up in the morning and read in the paper about how someone YOU bullied died because something you said? Personally I woudn't want that on my conscience. I have my moments where I forget this very thing I am hoping people will learn to do, but I am getting better and I hope that someday it never happens because life could be so much simpler if people learned to accept others for who they are and not avoid them because of things they can't change.

So here is a blog I found about bullying, one story of millions that happen all the time.. http://bullyingstatistics.blogspot.com/

Here is a link where I found some of my statistics http://www.pascack.k12.nj.us/70271919141818/lib/70271919141818/Bullying_Statistics.htm

and this is a link to a video about a bullying project movie or show that is coming out..
http://www.salon.com/entertainment/movies/feature/2011/04/27/bully_project_movie_trailer/index.html


I hope that even if you chose not to go along with what I say that someone out there learned something and maybe was able to change a few lives in the process.

(Oh and sorry Mrs. Healey that this one is like 13 minutes after 12!)

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?