Sunday, December 4, 2011

What has our world become?

I remember in childhood, everything was amazing. Life was easy. Nothing was troubling, unless you forgot your lunch at home or something.

But as you grow older, you realize how messed up this world is. Honestly, we are one messed up civilization. If you believe that animals are cannibals or if they eat each other, it's messed up, think again.

I would rather be eaten by my father (some lions eat their babies) than live through what many young teenagers go through.
I see friends, classmates, people I do not know, go through emotional suffering and abuse. That alone can kill anyone faster than any bacteria.

What makes us different from other animals is our compassion, our love, our affection, all which are more emotional than any other species that we know of. Yet we use that to our advantage, to hurt, to destroy others. Why do we do this?

Does it not make you want to cry when you see something like this happen? Why can we not see what monsters we have become? We laugh when someone else is the one being bullied. We giggle and make rude comments behind their backs. But in turn, what if it is us who are the victim? How will that work out? What would we feel?

Do you know what it means to be the one being hurt? The one who you have no one to talk to, no one to love, no one to care about? No one who cares about you? It hurts. And that destroys us. Destroys many of us.

I am going to start taking a stand. Stop what we have become. It is not too late to turn around. It's never too late. If we all start taking a stance now, we may have a chance to do something, change something. The question is: Are you willing to take that chance?

This boy did. Even if the video is fake, it still makes the same point: Bullying is not a simple thing. He made an impact regarding the issue of bullying that many would not dare to try. There were both positive and negative responses but that is not the point. He did something no one else tried to do. He touched the heart of many people, angered many others. The video has gone viral. He led the way to change the world. And I am going to join him. Are you with me?

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