To This Day Paper

As a kid, we’re expected to define ourselves at such an early age and if we didn’t, others would do it for us. Geek, fatty, slut, fag, and at the same we were being told what we were, we were being asked what we wanted to be, when we grow up. So we’d say things like a writer, artist or actor and they’d say, don’t be silly. You see, they asked us what we wanted to be, while telling us what not to be.

What makes our dreams so easy to dismiss and they too got called names; silly, foolish, impossible. Bullying has been a mindset embedded into our way of life since the being of time, carried forth by those who we were to consider our teachers, but no nothing of what could be taught to them. Those who doubt us, can be held as responsible as those who inflicted physical pain.

We’re surrounded by people who say that rhyme, about sticks and stones. As if broken bones hurt more than the names we got called, and we got called them all. So we’d grow up believing no one would ever fall in love with us. Our generation has become so accustomed to bullying that it’s simply looked at as tough love, with the only reason for it being kids can be cruel, but it has evolved beyond that. Recently, Katy Butler, a high school student spoke out on her feeling toward a film that the Motion Picture Association of America beforehand planned to make rated “R”. She felt the injustice behind this and sought out that it was Rated “PG-13”. The film, “The Bullying Project” depicts the life of victims of bullying and their stories and the good that can come from speaking up or just saying, “Hello”.

She started this petition in belief that if she had not spoken out about this issue, the movie would have been released under...

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...ught to be a better person. By communication and awareness people will come to understand the importance of change. It might be hard because bullying is publicly educated through television shows, radio stations, video games basically everywhere you look violence and bullying are being promoted. Children at an early age are a great example, because their minds are like sponges and retain that information for later that structure them into the person they have learned to be, which if raised correctly would be open minded individuals that know hurting people and violence is never the answer. Bullying can be thought of as a disease that can be contagious only if it is spread by those infected. In other terms, those whom feel like they we’re wrong as a child may feel the need to cause that same doing to others if not stopped or prevented as a child.