Bullying: Wake Up Call.

Bullying has been such a common thing nowadays that its completely normal for someone to witness bullying at least 5 times a day. People are unjustly treated and humiliated in public for the sake of someone's laughter. People have completely forgotten how to joke and laugh unless it has something to do with making fun of someone else.
The bullying epidemic is developing so quickly that 1/3 of children are being bullied or have been bullied before. 

If you think bullying is not a serious issue, take a look at the statistics:
1- Bully victims are 2-9 times more likely to consider suicide.
2- 56% of students have witnessed bullying.
3- 71% students report incidents of bullying as a problem.
4- 282,000 students are physically attacked in school every month.
5- 90% of fourth to eighth grade students report being bullied.
6- Thousands of students miss school everyday because they are scared of being bullied.
7- Every 1 out of 10 people who drop out of high school, do it because of bullying.
8- 87% of students say that school shootings are because people want to get back at people who had bullied them.

In terms of how bullying effects people; bullying destroys everything about a person; it destroys everything that they are. Bullying may cause a person to be insecure, depressed, and also it can develop social anxiety.

Although this epidemic is causing so many problems, people are not trying hard enough to stop it. In fact, no one should stop anyone from bullying; parents should teach their children to accept everyone the way they are. Every few minutes, someone attempts suicide; now as your are reading this, someone might be attempting suicide. Someone might be getting bullied right now. Someone might be crying their eyes off and harming themselves because of what someone might have told them.

Every person that cares about what other people have to say about her/him should start to loving themselves. I know you might think that its not easy but its actually simple: tell yourself you love and accept yourself and you soon enough will.

If you're a bully you should know that everyone has feelings, everyone has feelings and a heart. People will think about what you say, even if you say it as a joke. People WILL get upset. Think about your actions, consider the consequences. If you are bullying someone and telling them that they are things that they are not, STOP and BE KIND.

If you are being bullied, you have to reach out for help. You also need to question what people say about you because its probably not true.
When someone brings you down, remember how strong you are; how many times you have been put down; how many times you have experienced those close minded people. No matter what anyone says, you must not fall! When you are pushed down, you should stand on your feet again.

You must believe in yourself and wake up everyday energized and tell yourself that whatever you couldn't do yesterday, you can do today. Be yourself, work for yourself, believe in yourself and love yourself.

To everyone else: stand up to bullying. Say something, whoever you are, do not tolerate bullying. Reach out to the people who are being bullied, listen to them, help them; you might be the only savior they get.

We are all human beings and we all deserve to be treated with some kind of respect. I really believe if we work together, if we are informed and if we stand up to this; we can help make bullying less of a problem in our generation.