Bullying

Bullying

Sammi Linebach, Features Editor

No Sharkeisha! No! The majority of people know of this video. A girl gets pummeled in the face like a shark on a blood-spree. Meanwhile, it sounds like there are other people in the video besides the one recording it. Now why, why would you not stop her?

How many times have you seen someone get put down either verbally or physically. How many of those times have you done something about it? Tell me how many times have you been bullied or beaten up for no reason. If you were that girl getting beat, how many of you would want someone to stop what’s happening?

Now if you’re on the other side, the Sharkeisha side, it feels good getting that anger out, doesn’t it? Maybe your boyfriend just broke up with you. Maybe your best friend starts talking behind your back. Maybe your parents are divorcing or on the verge of it. You have all this anger and miserableness held up inside, and you’re ready to snap at any second.

The next person you see is your target. Even if they did nothing to you, or you heard a rumor about them stating they dislike you. You don’t know them or the truth, you’re just going off of your impulses, assumptions, and what you’ve heard.

It’s not right. Bullying is never right, even if you absolutely loathe that person, making them feel miserable, or belittling them is never the answer. You may think saying a couple words here and there never hurt a person. You may think that since they seem so happy, nothing can get them down. You’re way wrong on that one.

 

You know you’ve treated someone unfairly when they start to look tired, more then the usual, and when they start to mope around, frightful of what’s around the corner. They stay up at night wondering why them? What did they do to get bullied? They start falling asleep in class, and then grades start dropping term by term. Then you start to see the cuts and scars time after time.

Are you happy yet? Are you satisfied? Turning what was a innocent human being into a horrid, self conscious, self harming person. Then they get bullied more because they’re different. Because they find immoral ways of getting out their feelings and emotions, they get pushed further down the hole of desperation.
Next thing you know, you’re at the 10th year high school reunion, and that person isn’t there. You’re asking around only to find that they’ve become a concrete angel.