There are several things that I cannot stand in this world. Lieing, cheating, watching friends fight, listening to my brother get angry over some idiot kid who keeps trying to get on his bad side, having to watch something happen and not be able to do something about it, are just a few of them.
But the one thing I certainly cannot stand for is bullying.
My roommate mentioned something about cyberbullying and how a 14 year old girl from Ireland killed herself because someone picked on her so much that she took it to heart. She had only been in America for a few months.
It's amazing that we have kids in this country who feel that they must make others feel inferior, the only one to blame, if you need to blame someone, is the parents who are raising the child. Why must people believe they need to feel superior?
I realize that the parents are not the only ones to blame, the kids themselves obviously don't know how bad their words are affecting them. That or they just didn't care enough to stop.
I know how the girl felt, in my elementary school I was the girl in the classroom that nobody liked. I got picked on all the time, had to do my own thing. I acted like I didn't care that much, but I did, ended up chasing the boys around the playground for fun seeing as I didn't have anyone to talk to. Then I met my best friend in third grade, she had just transferred over and in my mind, I needed to get to her before the others turned her against me. We've been friends ever since.
I stayed at that school until my sixth grade year, my parents had gone through a bad divorce at the time and my Dad wanted to move from Georgia, to Kentucky in order to marry my step-mom. I guess that since I had been bullied so much in elementary school and had to learn to protect my little brother, he was only five at the time, I turned into the tough girl.
When I first started going to my new school, there was one kid who tried her best to pick on me and make me feel inferior. I smarted off to her and showed her I wasn't going to be victimized, she retaliated by slamming my head into the brick wall as we were walking to the locker room to change. The mistake she made was doing it in front of all the others girls who knew that she was picking on me.
They waited until I had left to go to the buses to take us home before ganging up on the girl and telling her in no uncertain terms that just because I was new that they were not going to allow her to pick on me. One girl grabbed her by the collar and said that if she did it again, they were going to pound on her. I found out this later when my best friend got on the bus with me and told me that I didn't need to worry about this girl any longer. Surprisingly, I found that to be true. I never saw the girl again.
Anyway, cyberbullying is the same as bullying except you have technology helping with that. Had I had a cellphone at the time I was being bullied, I would have turned it off or blocked their number like we told my roommate last night, and then if it kept happening, called the police and report them for harrassment. I understand the girl was new but at 14 years old I wouldn't have stood for it any longer, I would have done something instead of killed myself.
I've also been having some story ideas this week. Most of them come to me as I'm heading to classes but here's one:
A girl walking down the sidewalk towards her next class, everyone assumes that they know everything about her. But, unfortunately, they have no clue about her true self. That becomes obvious when a group of men with guns show up on campus and repeatedly ask several students about a certain girl. The students don't know the girl they are asking for, until she walks past the men and they start chasing her...
It's an idea at least, I don't know if I'll go through with it though, as generally I mostly write fantasy stuff...Modern stuff isn't my forte but I could give it a shot.
Have a wonderful week!
No comments:
Post a Comment