Journal #7

Bullying by definition is the act of a blustering, quarrelsome, overbearing person who habitually badgers and intimidates smaller or weaker people. This could mean a number of things. It could be the bully that you always see in the movies where the bully pushes the small little nerd into the locker or gives him wedgies or sticks the nerds head in the toilet and gives them a swirly. That is the kind of bullying you always see in the movies. However, this is not really how bullying is in school. Most bullying is verbal. People say mean things and recently with the technological advances with social networking sites such as twitter or facebook, people do cyber bullying where they say mean things by typing them out. This can have seriously awful effects for the both of the people involved. With cyber bullying some of the victims have gone as far as taking their own lives or some victims have even gone as far as bringing a weapon to school and going on a rampage. this happened in columbine. The student who brought a weapon to school and took the lives of students at columbine was a bit of an outcast who had been bullied a lot in his life. If the victim took it as far as death, whether it be their own or some other people. The bully would then have to live with the guilt of knowing you were partially to blame for the deaths of somewhat innocent people. Bullying is actually a really sad thing. Nobody deserves to come to school every day or work or anywhere being scared and being afraid to bully. Likewise it is also sad that some people feel the need to come to school, work, or anywhere else and feel the need that they have to be mean to them. A lot of life would be a lot lot easier if bullying did not exist, but that is pretty much impossible so people are going to have to learn to deal with bullying as it evolves.