Unfinshed Thoughts

wear orange, i know who you are

Wear orange tomorrow

A school-wide event to prevent bullying
"wear orange to change things"
"wear orange to stop bullying"

Trust me, wearing orange isn't going to make people have a change of heart.
wearing orange isn't going to keep the gay kid from killing theirself because of assholes like you.
wearing orange isn't going to keep the fat kid from developing an eating disorder.
wearing orange isn't going to stop anything

My friends always ask me why I hate the color orange.

I hate the color orange because of shit like this.

The only people who wear orange on anti-bullying days
are the people who have never been a victim in their goddamn life.

The people who post about anti-bullying have never been bullied.

we're in so deep, so let me define bullying for you.

bullying is not when someone doesn't like you because you're a nerd
bullying is not when you're not popular, so you feel like an outcast.

Bullying is when it constantly happens.
over
and over
and over and over
again.

Bullying is when you take pictures of people and shame them in your groupchat because they're fat.
Bullying is when you get called a slut or a whore by people you don't know just because of a false rumor.
Bullying is when you get physically and verbally harrassed because you're:

gay

fat

ugly

skinny

hot

or just because you are your own person
living for yourself not others.

bullying happens to everyone.
no one cares if you get bullied when you're pretty.
because you can take it.

that's what they told the popular girl at school when she reported getting physically harassed in the halls.
"you can take it"

but the girl didn't take it, she tried too.
but because of it she took the easy way out of this living hell.

so please
wear orange tomorrow.

you don't care about kids like me, like all of them.

you're only wearing orange for a cute insta pic to hashtag
#anti-bullying

Come back to me when you're the one being bullied
not the one bullying.

10/19/21