Journal

12/14/12

I woke up to a usual morning with the radio playing a song by Pink. I went to school like normal took a test in first and second hour third hour the senior class had an assembly. As the senior class was sitting in the library talking like nothing mattered finally our guest speaker comes in. He was tall with short light brown hair, attractive as a couple of friends and I saw him.

"Hi people call me Mr. Peace." He was here to talk to our class about bullying. He started off by telling us a story about when he was a kid he was not only the bullied but the bully.

"I finally fit in and became prom prince. Me being me I tried acting like a chameleon. I changed who I was to fit in with any group I as with. A girl who I have been friends with quiet some time asked me to slow dance with her. Because I was prom prince I had many people around me. I looked straight at her and said no. She got tears in her eyes while everyone including me laughed at her. I regret this and wish I can take it back." The thing about words is that you can never take them back I learned that the hard way. Freshman year my best friend left the state because there were rumors going around about her. The rumors were not caused by me but I had brought them to her attention she finally had enough and went to Montana. Words are like tooth paste once it's out of the tube it's impossible to put it back, once words are out you can't take them back. The number one reason kids are bullied is because they don't fit in the only way you can change that is if you give up on your status in hight school and accept them. Look at the kid who may not have friends who looks alone and say hi. Talk to people you don't normally talk to.

"Kids come up to me all the time and tell me about their problems. One kid was in first grade after my assembly with his class I came back a few weeks later. I walked into the lunch room and he calls me over. He proceeds to tell me that he told his dad that he needs to treat his daughter and his wife better. The father told him that he is an adult and he should not be talked to in such a manner. A few days after the boy told his father this the father left. The boy said he was hurt and he wanted others to feel hurt to. I tell the kid that that is not the answer making people feel bad wont make you feel any better it will just make you feel worse in the end. The boy proceeded to tell me he liked chicken. But the look in his eyes told me he understood." Don't bully other people because things in your life are not going as planned. The people who you are bullying also may be having days where things in their house hold are not working for them. You live your life and not other people's. If some one tells you something personal don't judge them on it try to be understanding that will make their day so much better.

"My friend who is also an anti bullying person did an assembly with a school in California. There were over two thousand kids there. After he was done talking he held an open mike. During this time the most unpopular girl who was always bullied walked up. She had a mental disability which made her limp when she walked. She walked up to the mike and looked at the head basketball player that every one loved. She pointed her finger at him and said I love that boy. The boy got up walked to her and picked her up in a hug and spun her around. After he sat her down the rest of the students proceeded to give her hugs. It took two and a half hours for all the kids to hug her." This also goes along with just accepting someone for who they are. He pulled out a twenty dollar bill "I have offered this to many kids. I told them I licked it, I crumble it. I sit on it and tell them that it was in dog poop and they all still want it. The point is not what it looks like or what has been done to it but the value of it." It's the same for people who cared what they look like it the value. How much heart the person has. That sat in my brain for the rest of the school day and my day went on in oblivion. Then I got home and learn that a man went into an elementary school and killed twenty some people kids included. These kids range from four to eleven. He originally went in to kill his mother,she was a teacher there, he was mad at her. What ever makes you mad enough to kill innocent children must have been bad. But as I think about it nothing can make you that mad to kill poor kids that barley had a life. The families that are suffering because of it. These kids could have possibly been our future doctors, presidents, grandparents. But now they are gone and don't have a chance. I am thinking this mad had a bully when he was younger that just pushed him to a point. There is never an excuse to kill a person. As that was on my mind my friend messages me that she got a new iPod. She is oblivious to the fact that poor children have died. It angered me to a great extent. Later when I started righting this she messages me again. Her dog Rayne was hit by a car and passed away. I cried again for the second time, the first time I fired was for the lost lives of children, the second was for a sweet dog. But what does this have do to with anything? In reality people have worse things going on in their lives there are families spending christmas this year crying over loved ones. wether it's because of a murder, got hit by a car, fighting a war, commuted suicide, or they are mad at you, don't give up. Make new friends and remember people have tough lives try to see them in their eyes. Don't bully people it may have an out come that ruins many people's lives. I pray for everyone that lost some one dear to them, including animals, and everyone has feelings. Never regret, always forgive and forget, never take anything you have for granted.

(Special thanks to Mr. Peace)

12/17/12

There was a threat called in for a school in Michigan today. Well at least prior to the Connecticut incident, the president did make a speech about it and prayed for them that's night. My point is this school has at least four weeks off including break. I thought to myself that I wish that was our school but then again I don't. If you can make a threat to a school after an elementary school was shot up yu have some issues. The only other reason someone would call a threat would be to get out of school but I am presto sure calling in. threats are a federal offense. Some people just go way to far. In other news I talked to my friend who lost her dog this weekend she said what helps her get over it is the fact that she feels her dog died to play with the kids who were killed in the shooting. I heard this and cried what a wonderful thought, maybe through all this pain we can look at it and find some kind of happiness. I was told by one of my many wise teachers, his name is Mr. Rousseau, that when you see the obituaries that it may be sad but does any body cry for a stranger. Most if not all of my class answered no but after the shooting I can answer yes now. I go around living my life and I don't worry about what is going on in other people's life yet maybe if I can just imagine maybe I won't be such a cruel person anymore. So as the day went on we really didn't talk about the shooting. Finally in my intro to med class Mr. Rousseau talk to us about it, the rescission turned into a debate wether or not guns were good to have for protection. Mr. Rousseau said "No they cause more problems than what they are worth. You know when cops pull over a person for speeding and the guy in the car takes the cops gun. The guy shoots the cop and drives off, the gun that was suppose to help the cop was used to murder him. So if Snyder makes it legal for people to have guns on school grounds an holy grounds, a teacher who is not trained to have a gun tries to use it you are not only putting kinds in danger but that teacher." I feel he makes a good point but I guess it depends on the situation. Mr. Rousseau also made the point that we have to find people who are potentially dangerous before the cause a crime like killing people. My daddy just read me a news article where this guy killed two girls then killed him self. Before this happened he was in trouble with the law for the past twenty four months for domestic violence. Isn't that warning enough to tell you that the guy should have gotten proper help or at least been in jail?

(special thanks to Mr. Rousseau)