Friday, November 21, 2014

Put Yourself in Their Shoes (Bullying Awareness Day)

How does it feel to be bullied? Some of you might wonder, some of you might know. I bet everyone here who goes to school knows or is someone who gets bullied at your school. Whether it's in your grade, in your class or just anyone in your school. If you are not bullied, don't you ever wonder how it feels? If your not too busy bullying someone else. If you do bully someone, does it ever occur to you that they are clearly hurt, or offended? That may be your intention, but why? Why do we want to hurt people as a society? Is that our goal? Is that America's goal? Imagine this....


Your walking in the hallway at school on an ordinary day. Imagine all your friends, gone. You didn't have anyone at school who you were really tight with, who would include you in everything. So, you go to school and because you don't have anyone who is your "BFF" I suppose, people pick on you for it. How would it feel to walk down the hallways everyday, fearing someone laughing at you, or whispering about you to others around you? How would you like to hear your name in a conversation amongst the "popular" kids? Imagine how it would feel if you had no friends in your class and you became afraid whenever the teacher said "Okay, find a partner or a group" knowing that you are nobody's first choice, but everyone's last choice? How would it feel to want to be friends with everyone and knowing they only see you as someone everyone can make fun of, instead of making fun of each other? Imagine how it would feel to be left out, every day? Think about it.

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