We have all been bullied at some point in our life, I never really thought too much about this until one day in class we had guest speakers come and talk to us about bullying and how much it hurts people. At first I thought to myself that it was just another boring talk about how we hurt peoples feeling from saying mean things. Although this is important we have all been hearing this from our mothers since birth and we all know that words hurt. After sitting there for a few minutes listening to the women speaking I realized that there were quite a few things that we say in everyday life that doesn’t seem like bullying is in fact bullying because it is hurtful. They said that if you purposefully leave someone out of something fun that is bullying, at first everyone including myself was taken back because you don’t think that that is a form of bullying but it is because you are demeaning the person you are not inviting. The person one way or another is going to find out and that they were not invited to the event that all the others were and the person will feel like they are less important than the others. I now saw that this could be seen as a form of bullying and that anything that makes a person feels out of place or degrade then is not only extremely rude but also bullying. This is one of those things that wakes you up and makes you think about all those times that you invited the whole school to a party except for those select few. It makes you feel shame and awareness for all of those that you have bullied because they are just as human as you are. I was bullied for almost a year out of my schooling, I remember fighting a kid because of the smallest thing that he said to me, it was just one of those things that kept boiling up until I could no longer control myself. Next thing I knew I was suspended from school and I looked like the bad guy for starting the fight. That made me angrier than anything, I left class that day motivated never to be treat people with disrespect because not only is it not worth it but it is much easier to treat people with respect and be the better person even if you don’t necessarily like the other person. I really enjoyed that Professor Vallier brought people into the class to speak about bullying because it was kind of nice to see how many people are affected by bullying.
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