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The Evil of Bullying

Bullying is a curse, not a gift. Every now and then, bullying has been one of the many reasons as to why innocent kids and teenagers would want to hurt themselves at the end of the day. Bullying can happen anywhere and everywhere. It could happen in school, at a friend’s house, at an after school program or even at home. It could even occur online where now a days, teenagers spent their time and energy. Bullying is somewhat like cancer. No matter how hard we try and fight to protect our loved ones from this dangerous, contagious disease, it will always find a way to get to us on where it will hurt us the most. Bullying has no boundaries and it has taken the happiness that took its victims hard work to find in their lives. Unfortunately, it could be said that bullying is one of the many roots that leads innocent victims that are trying to contribute to our society in becoming dangerous criminals that will try to destroy that very society that they once sought to be a part of. Up to this day, bullying has destroyed the very core of a person’s being. It doesn’t matter if it’s the person that’s doing the bullying or the person that’s getting bullied. They are both hurting because of bullying. In the past, bullying has conquered the lives of many innocent victims. Sadly, it is still happening in today’s society. The victims would either kill themselves as a result of them being unable to take it longer or that their family aren’t giving them the proper the support that they needed to get out of that situation in one piece. Also, there were some victims that have killed those that were making their lives into a living nightmare. These are just one out of many scenarios of how bullying overpowered its victims. However, don’t worry because for every problem, there is a solution.

In order for us to find the solution to bullying, we must first address what bullying really is. Bullying for the most part is aggressive behavior among school aged children that involves a real or perceived power imbalance. In simpler terms, it’s when an individual seeks to harm, intimidate or oppress someone or group of people that they deem inferior to them. By doing this, the prosecutor feels as if he or she has complete influence and power over their victims. The damage of bullying can be done in more ways than one may think it will. Yes, that’s right, there are different types of bullying. Besides physical bullying, there’s verbal bullying, social bullying and cyber bullying. Even though each of them have their own differences in how they harm their victims, the similarities between them is more or less the common effects that it has on its victims. Some of these common effects are depression, anxiety, health complaints and a decrease in academic achievement. Unfortunately enough, bullying is a double edge sword. Bullying has a long lasting effect on not only to its victims, but to its prosecutors as well. It brings out the worst in them. Bullying for the most part make its prosecutors become abusive when it comes to alcohol, they get into fights, drop out of school and become abusive towards their romantic partners. These are some of the common effects of bullying.

Physical bullying is using “one’s body and physical bodily acts to exert power over peers. Punching, kicking and other physical attacks are all types of physical bullying” (https://antibullyingsoftware.com/what-is-the-definition-of-physical-bullying/). Fortunately enough, physical bullying is way easier and a lot more noticeable to spot since it is damage being dealt to the victim’s physical body. It’s a lot more noticeable than verbal bullying. Well, the best way to prevent physical bullying is by having adults teaching their fellow young students, especially the ones in elementary and middle school on the differences between play fighting and bullying. According to “Face Bullying With Confidence: 8 Kidower Skills We Can Use Right Away”, it states that “To practice, show young people the difference between being passive, aggressive, and assertive in body language, tone of voice and choice of words” (https://www.kidpower.org/library/article/prevent-bullying/?gclid=CjwKCAjw8LTmBRBCEiwAbhh-6B-AIRsA1x8aF4-q5gkkXD_Sd8BRqHrhfffWgm4rLL8_b7mvWhIglRoCNtQQAvD_BwE). This shows that physical bullying alone can be prevented by one’s body language. The way how one portrays themselves in their own setting and environment is how that said individual will be able to protect themselves from physical bullying.