We face enough challenges in our life. We certainly don’t need anymore hate crimes, violence, or deaths due to the inability to accept others and their differences.
Being an adolescent is hard. It’s even harder to be a teenager. Those are the years where you don’t even know yourself, yet others feel the need to bestow judgment upon you. These are the cruel facts of life.
It’s our job as a compassionate society to help not hurt each other. Why is it ok for people to think they can publicly humiliate and torture others just because they are different?
Why are we sitting in America today and talking about the death of another homosexual male that took his own life because his personal life was put on the internet as a prank by his college roommate? What gives someone the right to spread hate? To breed ignorance? And, why would others celebrate in the demise of another human being?
I say it’s a sick world we are living in. Is the internet the core of our destruction? No. We are.
The minds of our youth need to change and we need to help make them realize their mistakes. Hopefully, we accept others and the challenges we all face. Hopefully, it won’t be too late for the next victim of bullying.
I am somebody. You are somebody. We all must recognize this.
Children with physical and mental challenges deal with it everyday. They are teased, picked on, bullied, and beat up by their peers. They are tortured souls.
Teach your children that it’s not right to pick on or place judgment on others.
Who do we think we are? Why should we LEARN to tolerate others? What gives us the right not to?
I actually hate the words tolerate, and tolerance. That means to put up with. What are we putting up with it when it’s not even our own lives? Where does this superior feeling come from within people?
Worry about your own life and let others live theirs. We stand in the way of ourselves when we think we are better than someone else. The person sitting next you holds a hundred secrets in their head. It’s not your business.
Teach your children that they are somebody. Love them for their differences even if it’s hard for you to accept as a parent.
Help them say I am somebody when they don’t have the power, strength, or ability to say it for themselves.
Bullies are the most insecure people out there. They find ways to hurt everyone else when they are hurting worse than the rest of us.
I am somebody. Say it out loud. Say it for yourself, for your friends, for your family, for the kids that are bullied, and say it even for the bullies who can’t find inner peace.
We are all different. But, we are all somebody. Accept not tolerate. Love not hate.
I am somebody. I am somebody. I am somebody. Say it loud and say it proud. Say it for the people who never had the chance to say it.
Say it so that somebody NEVER thinks they are a nobody.
