To This Day

Before:
Bullying in my opinion is a sorry excuse people use to make themselves feel as though
they are better then others. It is a constant cycle of insulting others and treating them
like garbage which in turn causes others to bully or worse. Bullying can cause people to
doubt everything that they believe in or feel and can trigger them to even doubt the
smallest of choices in life because of this. Bullying seems to cause people to start feeling
depressed and give up hope on things and even drop the things they love or enjoy
doing.People may be told to stand up for themselves but that makes it worse, it doesn’t
end and it probably never will honesty.
We are told to decide on who we want to be but then we are dismissed on such ideas
but when we attempt to express them we are put into a place of fear where we never
get to live up to our own ideals and are constantly being left out and treated as if we do
not belong or matter. This topic speaks to me as I have grown up getting bullied and
excluded. I may not be bullied right now but I constantly feel alone and wish I had friends
so I may feel less by myself

During:
He is speaking from his experiences and talking about how painful words can really be
and how you may seem someone may be fine and just acting like they aren’t but they
aren’t fine you can not belittle others to the point where they feel these ways and then
act as if they aren’t here. Sticks and stones may break my bones but words are the most
painful out of all of that. We feel as though what we are going through is the worst but
everyone is bullied by someone, everyone is treated unequally and disrespected by
someone no one is safe or perfect and you may act as if you are fine but you are not fine.
People find out too late when someone is in need of help and then they are erased and
left in the dust never to be mentioned again.

After:
My viewpoints on bullying have not changed much. I agree with Shane Koyczan in some
aspects and see this as yet another viewpoint on the problems we have at hand. I feel as
though if we tried to make an effort if we really attempted to make others included or
remembered life would be for the better. I feel as though we are needed in this world to
prevent others from going through what we may have once gone through or are
currently going through. We need to develop and grow who we are as human beings and
not let things like this drag us down to a place we may never return from. We try to
ignore it, we try to improve but we will never be able to accomplish this unless this is
finally put to an end.