Words Hurt More Than Knives.
There is a lot of bullying in this world. Sometimes, people think it is the worst at there school. Even though it is basically equal at every school. Bullying is a huge issue nowadays. I have witnessed bullying, been bullied, and one time, been the bully. Bullying is nothing that should be thrown away because of the recent suicides of many teens, for being different. People get bullied for many reasons, maybe because of their sexual orientation, or the clothes they wear, or what color their hair is. People often bully for many reasons. Those reasons may include the fact that they were bullied, insecure about themselves, jealousy, or home problems. They also bully to make themselves feel better and to feed their lust for power. Bullying needs to stop. It needs to stop now.
I have personally been bullied sense I was in seventh grade. They picked on me because my hair was short, and I had a baby face. When I grew my hair out, and stopped fitting in the mold, wearing tighter jeans, and band tees. They made fun of me for being different. By the time I was in eighth grade, I have gotten into my first physical fist fight. I was at the movie theatre with my friends. People were making smart comments, and being very mean to me and my group of friends. I brushed it off until one of them walked up to me, and called me a "Faggot", I got really angry, really fast. He asked me what I was gonna do about it, and then pushed me. My first response was to push him back, but no. Haha, I hit him. The fight did not end until we got torn apart by the mall security. I was done.
The most I was ever bullied was in 9th grade. Nobody liked me. However, that is quite okay, because I did not like most of them anyways. There was too many people to name, and too many incidents to describe. The school did nothing. I tried reporting it, but it was just a waste of time because the same people just got another "warning" but no real consequence. I just started to fight back, with more words, and more texts, and more IM's, and more Facebook wall posts. I could not stand it anymore. I was being called to many things, and nothing was being done. I could not do the littlest thing without someone commenting on it, making fun of my pictures, or everything that i posted. I couldn't do anything else but fight back. I never could trust anyone. I never had anyone to fall back on. I was alone, me against the world i guess you could say. Lucky for me, i was able to hold my own, and fight my own battles. The bullies had no reason to pick on me, and no reason to start with me. Everyone just told me that when i fight back, I'm just fueling their fire. And giving them what they wanted. I did not think so, because when i did walk away, or just stop commenting. They never stopped. I ended up deleting my facebook for a while, and never wanted to go to school. I cut out of 2 classes, because i was scared to go to them. People would say stuff right in class in front of me. The teachers thought we were joking around. I never shed a tear at school, but when i got home, they all just leaked out. Bullying hurts. It may not be in fists, but words hurt so much more. I am able to say, that i survived Regional, and I survived bullying.
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