Hey, blogettes! If there has been anything that I have learned this week that has stayed with me throughout the week is being strong goes a long ways. It shows people that you are a person that would be worth a try. Sometimes though, being strong is hard with all the judgmental things going on at school that have been aimed at me, I sometimes feel like I don't belong at my own school that I have gone to since PreK. I feel like I don't belong because even my best friends are beginning to shy away from me now, and these notes keep popping up. Although people have gone out of their way to talk to me, I know it is because they went to my church where we were challenged to do that. We were challenged to go out of our way to tell someone that we normally wouldn't find ourselves with something, and brighten their day.
I think that this should be an everyday thing though, and that we should be doing it because we want to do it, not because we were challenged to do it, and we do it to complete the challenge so that we don't have to look like fools when we go back to church. I want to do something to show people that we are all on the same level really, and that we all do matter, and belong where we are and being who we are. I want to start something at lunch where I get a group together and we do a lot of fun things besides eat lunch. I want to show people that we can get along without changing who we are. I want to show people what high school is going to be like but earlier, and I want to make middle school less dramatic.
Being a teenager is bad enough, but middle school is also the time where you really are planning out your future, and finding out who you really are, which is tough enough. I want to make it so that no matter how you turn out, people will accept you either way. I want to show them that we here at Lisbon are yes, a tight chain with each other, that helps each other out, and watches out, but we are also very welcoming and flexible allowing new people to join. At our school right now, new people are treated like royalty, but the funniest thing was, I was never treated that way. I spent recess alone, and was alone because no one wanted to sit at a table with me. I guess that was the first time that it was going to be a rough ride.
Know what, though, I am going to be strong, and I am going to get through it. I have got to keep my guard up at school, and then let it loose here at home. I can't have mental breakdowns at school because then people will know that it's getting to me and they are winning. I want to show them that no, they aren't going to win the fight with me anymore, and that they should give up while they are ahead.They also shouldn't do it to other people because those people will have God and I on their side, and with us, nothing bad is going to happen. We are going to take a stand, because we have had enough, and something has got to change, before someone gives up, and either moves away or commits suicide because they feel like no matter how hard they try they will never be good enough to get into a group.
Now, I don't know about you but I would much rather be in a group with people who are kind of on the lower part of the food chain of the social statuses at school because they were being themselves, than at the top of the food chain in a group full of fakers or wannabes who bring everybody down that they think are below them because they will never be good enough no matter how hard they try to get up there with them to get out of the mess. Fakers are just a mess, and they are really going no where in their lives, and their futures won't be that good because they didn't start in middle school like those people who were staying true to themselves were. I know peer pressure makes mostly everyone do things, but honestly, get over peer pressure, it doesn't matter. You do what you want to do and don't give second thoughts. Live your life without regrets. You are you, and you do what you want to do, and you lead your life the way you want to lead it.
Bullying and judging others isn't cool because we are all different, and we should accept that we will never be the same. Really, we are all on the same level, and we all matter. We all belong where we are and leading our lives the way that we are leading them to get to our goals. We are trying to make our futures bright, and being in middle school and a teenager is hard enough especially when you are a girl like we all are, or so I hope we all are. Don't take life away from someone because they couldn't handle the extra drama that seemed to be pointed at them enough to take their own life. Stop while you are ahead, and go out of your way even if it does mean lowering your status a bit to show people that when we aren't faking things just to look cool and get to the top, we are all the same.
My school is going to have another blue out against bullying day and bullying seminar again soon, and I hope that this time things change and stay changed, instead of going back to normal a couple of days after the seminar. Remember this, being strong about everything, and just praying to God to help you through the day like I do will help you through everything, and the day until you get to a place where you can let it all out because I know being strong when something like this happens is hard to do. I have gone through it for four years myself.
I'm taking a stand because I am going to no longer be a victim of bullying. I am going to be that person that is going to help victims see the good in themselves, and see that they do matter in this world, and that we do need them because they are very special. I want to see them see that their future is bright, and it really does get better. I want to bring people together, and make our school stronger, and more like a family earlier than high school because the time that we need to be tight is now, and now is like right now that a change needs to start occurring. It is time that people take a stand and say something about how treating people like they aren't worth it isn't right because we are all people and we are all on the same level.
I just want to say that you are not alone, and that we are going to win this fight, and cross that finish line with a smile on our faces, because we stood up, and we fought because we had enough and were ready just to be ourselves again and do the same with the other people. This world has a bright future ahead of it but the movement begins now, and it begins with you. Go out of your way because you want to with your friends and start a group and invite others to join it constantly. I mean you need to show them that anybody can be in the group. It doesn't matter what your social status is, it's just that everyone needs to know that they have a person there for them. Everyone needs to be able to have good fun memories of their time in middle school because it is short. Everyone needs to be able to say that they have a group at lunch that does all kinds of things and is a place for anyone and everyone because everyone in the group has had their eyes opened to the way of living in this world and wanted to change that.
I want the group to seem like a family outside of your family, your school family, where we are all so close, that we can go to anyone in that group during a time of need, and know that we are going to get the things that we need in order to cheer up and move on because those people get us, because they really know and accept us. I want the group to make middle school seem easier, and make people think like wow, this is a breeze because there is no drama because we are all so tight with each other. I want to make sure that there is something done about those people who feel like they will never be good enough for anyone because they are good enough. They will have bright futures once they get out of this dark tunnel. I am beginning to see the light myself, and I am sprinting towards it. I want to help others out ASAP because I know that my story can make deep changes in the way that some people see their lives or futures because I went through bullying myself and I know because I have been planning for my bright future that things are going to go right for me, and I want to make others feel like they matter, and should keep moving and living for their future, because everyone has those dreams of homecomings, proms, and graduations, weddings and families.
Being strong, and reaching out and helping those in need of help will go a long ways, here and it just might save a life of a bullying victim who is to the point where they feel like no matter how hard they try they will never matter enough to be noticed by mankind who is really cruel. Keep pushing forward, and keep that chin up buttercup because things are about to get better because I am going to start the movement tomorrow, even though it should be already started by those reading this post right now.
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