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I’m sure we all heard of the blues
as a type of music, but today in our World children across
the nation face The Bullying Blues. Why does it happen?, how
can it happen?, What type of people would scar other people
by bullying!? Those are some of the questions many people
ask but they never find out the answer. All human beings have
flaws and flaws are what bullies prey
on to bring us down. Many kids get victimized and it needs
to stop to make the world safer and to stop “The Bullying
Blues.” For me, being thirteen and being in a middle
school it is a high area were bullies lurk around just waiting
for their next victim to hurt, torture and tease.
During the past school year I was instant
messaging my friend on the internet. We talked about the average
things teenagers talk about like T.V. music and other things.
Then I got my friends message and it said, and I quote “Hey
Joe you know that loser kid that I tease at school. I just
e-mailed him and called him a whole bunch of curse words,
It was hilarious I think I made him even cry, knowing him”.
From that point on I was stoned cold because
I never though that my friend would do that. I have good judgment
in friends and I would never pick a bully as one of my friends.
I could imagine the way that kid may have felt, the agony,
and the pain of the bullying. I knew that was not nice and
I knew I had to put my foot down before it got series because
I happened to know that when you’re bullied you feel
humiliated, defenseless, and afraid and I knew this could
not continue.
My next instant message was to my so called
“Friend.’ And I wrote that “it was horrible
and disrespectful for you to do that to another human being
and if you do not agree with me we could end our friendship.”
I left it like that and sent it.
In about five minutes I got an instant message
back and it said “Ya Ya I guess you were right I mean
I was just teasing him I didn’t think it was that bad.
Any way I just instant messaged him and told him I was sorry.”
I’m glad you made the right decision. What I learned
from this catastrophe was that talking the problem out can
fix the problem once and for all whether the issue is bullying
or something else.
I think the kid that was getting picked
on was very sad and who can blame him because anyone who is
being called names would be sad and I would be too if I was
being bullied. I think my friend felt cool and he thought
he was a big tough guy but now that it is all done and settled
and he knows never to bully again.
Bullying is destroying the life and
safety of other people through teasing, bullying, hitting,
or otherwise “Putting them down,’ is as destructive
to themselves as to their victims. All those words I said
is what I want you to keep in your mind with you when faced
with a bully, remember never get down by “The Bullying
Blues!”
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