CHOICE......Because i can be.....
Why is bullying such a problem in schools?
What makes kids ostracize, ridicule and spread malicious lies about their fellow students?
Gossip and hate makes the teenage world go round right?
I was just reading an article on bullying
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100426/ap_on_re_us/us_bullying_one_boy_s_story;_ylt=AriSgE6.mnESsFECQvD763tH2ocA;_ylu=X3oDMTNnaTludTFsBGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMTAwNDI2L3VzX2J1bGx5aW5nX29uZV9ib3lfc19zdG9yeQRjY29kZQNtb3N0cG9wdWxhcgRjcG9zAzQEcG9zAzQEc2VjA3luX3RvcF9zdG9yaWVzBHNsawN0ZWVuc3N1aWNpZGU-
allegedly this 16 yr old boy couldn't take it anymore and shot himself with this dad's shotgun in the woods behind his house. He left a note for his parents. His mom found his body.
Why must it come to this for some individuals?
Aren't we given a responsibility as fellow human beings to help our brother or sister through whatever emotional anguish or physical pain they are going through.
Sadly, this is no longer the case in our society.
No one gives a shit whether you live or die.
And this is the bloody bare-assed truth in the case of a good samaritan (Hugo Alfredo Tale-Yax) who lay dying on a sidewalk of stabwounds after he stopped an attack on a woman. The attacker stabs him multiple times and runs off.Alfredo tries to give chase but falls to the sidewalk. Pedetrians see him there and just keep walking.
http://news.yahoo.com/video/us-15749625/19004488#video=19326938
This world is callous, merciless and relentlessly horrific.
And the people in it only live for themselves and their selfish goals.
It's enough to make you want to drink bleach and end it all. If only to get away from this never-ending bullshit!
Oh right..that's what kids these days are doing....
How utterly heartbreaking these lost kids are. And how gut-wrenchingly pathetic and disgusting bullies and uncaring people are.
They'll push a kid to suicide and leave a hero on the sidewalk to die of stab-wounds.
How fuckin' great us human are.....we need to give ourselves a round of applause.
We ridicule anyone different or who we don't understand. Torment them mercilessly.
the truth is, that we're scared that deep down inside....we're just like them. Lonely, akward, hurt and ugly.
For most people, their ugliness is on the inside where they can't see it. But it's there alright and the ugliness rears it hideous head whenever we feel threatened or want to assert our dominance on a so-called weaker specimen of our race.
Humans.....the Lord gave us the power of subjugation.........
"So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and SUBDUE IT: AND HAVE DOMINION over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and OVER EVERY LIVING THING THAT MOVETH UPON THE EARTH."
(GENESIS 1:27-28)
I don't know about you, but i don't take "...subdue... and have dominion over every living thing...", to mean having control over our fellow man and placing a bridle of slavery over their spirits.
I don't think God meant that by his Words.
But human kind had evolved haven't we.....and an oh-so-fine people we have become...haven't we?
Everything coms down to choice in the end though, doesn't it?
we can choose to be a kind, giving loving individual who connects with another and sees them through hardship and extends the hand of friendship OR....we can kick our fellow man/woman when they're already down and rub their noses in the dirt of their failure, shorcomingd and transgressions......CHOICE.....isn't that what life is all about?
In the words of Veronica Sawyer/ Winona Ryder and Heather Duke/ Shannon Doherty in Heathers:
VERONICA: Heather why can't you just be a friend?! Why are you such a mega-bitch?!!
HEATHER : Because i can be.....