Almost everyone goes through bullying sometime in there life. Some have gotten bullied, some are getting bullied, and there are the few who are part of the “pretty” group of girls/boys and just by chance did not get bullied. I understand what Emily did but I believe that she could have done more. She did not have to run away from her problems but instead she could have stuck up for herself. It is hard to get bullied for 8 years in your life but don’t you think there will be a point and time where you reach your breaking point? Where you feel like you’ve just had enough? I can’t say that I have been bullied. I’ve been made fun of a couple of times but it didn’t take an effect on me.
To tell the truth, I was sort of the bully. A lot of people were intimated by my size and by my looks. Back in grades 4-7 I was pretty tall for my age so people were afraid of me. I told people what to do and made fun of them to get what I wanted. I shortly learned in grade 7 that, that’s just not how things are suppose to go. It’s because a certain incident occurred amongst the group I was with. One day I was just merely walking with a few friends and they decided to beat up a little innocent 11 year old child who was new to the school. I told them to just leave the child alone but they gave me a look and went about there business. I just stood back and watch everything happen. They bothered the child so much that they ran away crying towards a teacher who later told the principal. The next day the mother of the child came to the school because of course the parent was worried. Ever since that day I have not bullied another person.
The reason I started bullying people in the first place was because I knew I could. Now that I’ve realized how wrong it is to bully people, I’ve stopped. A few of my friends had different reasons on why they bullied people. Some because they’ve been bullied, some who had problems going on at home and couldn’t do anything about, and then the ones who were like me and just bullied people because they looked like a typical bully themselves. Seeing that one kid get bullied by my friends took a toll on my life. I’ve never experienced that kid’s pain but just to see the way he reacted got to me.
Bullying is very wrong and people do need to come to realization what they do and how they react towards people. As Charles Horton Cooley examined and explained his thoughts on the looking-glass self, he clearly states that we react to the perception with the feeling of pride and embarrassment. Which sums up to say that we sometimes as well react to what people say towards us and decide to take out our anger in another way.
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