Today a family lays their child to rest. Why you may ask, did this child feel the need to take their own life when it seemed as if they had everything to live for? We live in a world of assumption, seemingly everything is alright when in contrast torment abounds. A husband torments his wife by telling her she’s fat, a wife torments her husband by telling him he’s useless, a mother torments her child by telling them they are stupid, the walls have ears and the torment goes outside and starts to feed a frenzy. Now the stupid child needs to protect their feelings so they torment the kid on the basketball court because they wear glasses, the wife calls her mom and torments her by telling her she’s a bad mother, the husband goes to work and torments his colleagues with unrealistic demands and deadlines. The walls have ears and the torment goes outside and feeds the frenzy more. Do you see a pattern starting to form? Have we become a species that breeds nothing but torment and bullying? Have we become so insensitive to the feelings of others that we justify our words by blaming what went on inside our own walls? Sorry, but I’m a firm believer that two wrongs don’t make a right. Thing is from the beginning we assume that the “husband” has a great family life and job when in reality he is a tormentor and most likely been tormented himself. When and where does it stop? How many lives and loved ones must we lose before we realize that something needs to change? The torment begins at home and needs to seize from beginning there. Somewhere along the line we have become so complacent about calling someone “stupid, fat, ugly, a jerk, weirdo, four-eyes, skinny-minnie, useless, dweeb and other negativities to the point that each of us have a small bully inside. When we sit back and listen to others put others down we are just as guilty as if we were doing it ourselves. Well I for one am done, well done as a matter of fact; I’m taking a stand from this day forward. Anyone, I don’t care who they are, ANYONE that says something negative to someone else in front of me will be called out by me. I will not sit idle and listen to it, I will tell you straight up that what you are saying is not nice, it’s wrong and to stop being so mean. If you don’t care to hear it, then don’t say mean things to others in front of me. Sure I may lose a couple friends, so be it, sure I may end up the only one that does take an active stand against bullying, so be it. I will have known I did what I know in my heart is right. To stand up and say enough is enough. God does NOT make ugly, people make ugly and personally I don’t want to be around ugly bullying people.
Posted on: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 20:25:15 +0000