As a robust child growing up I was picked on. I remember
saying “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.”
Years later I began to think about these words and figured out that words
actually hurt people worse than breaking bones. Broken bones heal; words leave
wounds that at times never heal. You remember things that are said about you or
to you for years after they are said. I
have noticed many references to bullying over the last couple of years. It
saddens me when I hear of kids who have been bullied and do harm to themselves because
they cannot face it. Personally it affected me in that I used self-deprecating
humor in order to deflect others from picking on me. I figured in my mind that
if I cut myself down before they could it would cause my antagonist to stop. I
took a pro-active (in my mind) approach to bullying. This worked in my time but
that was before the internet, and social media. I could escape to my home and
get away. Now days it’s not only at school and in the street, it’s on your computer
when you get home. In my day there was a
chance to escape not in the short term but in the long run when you could move
away. Now with cyber bullying there is
no escape.
It really saddens me to hear on the news and from your blog about how bad bullying is getting these days. My best friends brother has been bullied at his school and is probably going to transfer schools because of it. It's sad but I really don't see it changing unless parents and teachers interfere and only that can go so far sine they are not with the kids at all times. Hopefully one day things will change.
ReplyDeleteLinnzi Wimberley
I used to get bullied when I was younger because I bleached my hair blonde and I hated going to school. It can really put hate in a lot of young people's hearts today. I hope it can stop because it will change a lot of lives today and make the world a more friendly place.
ReplyDeleteTony Miliziano