Friday, 4 May 2012

Definition of Bullying
Bullying is when someone keeps doing or saying things to have power over another person.
Some of the ways they bully other people are by: calling them names, saying or writing nasty things about them, leaving them out of activities, not talking to them, threatening them, making them feel uncomfortable or scared, taking or damaging their things, hitting or kicking them, or making them do things they don't want to do.

Have you ever done something like that to someone?
I know I have.
Back in primary school I did that to someone
More than someone
Some people.
Then Karma happened.
And we all know how bitchy she can be.
And I never did that again.

You'd think as people grow older they would learn to be more matured and not as childish.
But I realized that as people age,
The more childish and immature they become.
And the deeds they do are more dastardly as well.

While we don't threaten people,
Or go out of our way to make them fear us and inflict physical pain on them anymore,
We start to exact emotional pain on people.
And of the two (physical and mental), I feel emotional pain is the worse.

We talk behind their backs and call them nasty names behind their backs.
We exclude them from our events and ignore them when they approach us.

Why?

Does it make you feel better about yourself?
Do you feel cool and popular?
Are you going to get a prize for putting down someone just because he or she is different?

All it takes is for one person to start hating on someone different
And the rest to join in.

Think about it:
That person who started the whole show is probably insecure and afraid of that person who is different from him or herself.
He or she then pretends to be confident, when in reality, he or she isn't.
But we dare not point it out.
We being the cowards that we are, join in.

But if we didn't,
And we had made a stand and said that "No, I think that you're wrong."
This wouldn't happened. And that person who tried to stir trouble up, would probably never try to do it again.

Don't get me wrong,
This isn't about humiliating the bully,
Because if we did that, how different would we be different from the bully?
This is about putting a stop to bullying, the act of bullying.

Stand up for yourself.
Stand up for that poor kid that unwillingly became the butt of all your jokes.
Stand up against bullying.

Appreciate the fact that we are all different. That we are individuals with different strengths and weaknesses.
Stop being afraid of people who are different from us.

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