It's just not your day.

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Run. I say run because kids these days have to. They run from society, school, their parents, and even themselves. Why? Well the question itself is complicated because there never is a correct answer, so then what's the answer to help these individuals from others and make things less complicated. Society can make things less complicated if it chose to, keeping high standards of how things should be is what is causing these dilemas and let me tell you, bullying which is a social conflict of today has increased in the past years and have continuously hurt students mentally and physically. From a source statistics show that, one in four kids in the U.S. are bullied on a regular basis. This means that friends, family members, and those we see all around us may be victims or even the bully themselves whether they admit to the situations or not. In a recent SAFE survey, teens in grades sixth through 10th grade are most likely to be involved in activities related to bullying. About 30% of students in the United States are involved in bullying on a regular basis either as a victim, or bully or even both. It is stated from that same source that verbal bullying is used throughout no matter what, 77% of all students being bullied verbally in some way or another including mental bullying or even verbal abuse. These statistics aren't the only ones, there are obviously many more that have higher numbers, but what is pathetic is that we say we all are united as well as equal; then why are kids at an early stage being told that they aren't as good as others, why are kids of larger sizes or those that are more confident taking advantage of those that are insecure about themselves? Where are the authorities? While keeping those questions in mind, I want to bring to your attention that nowadays, bullying is taking place over technology and the commonly used is the internet, it's now called cyberbullying. Cyberbullying is defined to be when a child or teenager is harassed, humiliated, embarrassed, threatened or tormented using digital technology.This is not limited to the Internet; cyber bullying also encompasses bullying done through such things as text messages using cell phones. Regardless of what it may mean teenagers still go around throwing their words around for people to see, which is harmful to those that see. According to Cyber bullying statistics from the i-SAFE foundation: Over 25% of adolescents and teens have been bullied repeatedly through their cell phones or the Internet, and well over half of young people do not tell their parents when cyber bullying occurs and if you weren't aware mean, hurtful comments and spreading rumors are the most common type of cyber bullying. To my understanding, bullying isn't the way to solve internal problems you must be aware that others have the same feelings and are going through similar situations, by saying things that will crack their shell won't do you any benefit in the long run. The only thing that you have accomplished is, hurting one more person in the world, creating social standards that seem to mean a lot and have created issues in society, and you might've created a whole bunch of guilt as well as consequences for yourself. If something were to go wrong with the person that you didn't intend to hurt that bad, because in some cases there are deaths, family members are lost and even if you didn't mean to be so vulgar, you sure as well did a good job as expressing your hateful thoughts towards them when they were around. So, ultimately what I'm trying to say is that, if you have nothing nice to say don't say it. Many have scars, wounds and some aren't even around anymore due to some situations and weren't strong enough to handle the pain. In order to rid such situations we have to come together, accept one another, and befriend each other.

Sources:

http://www.bullyingstatistics.org/content/cyber-bullying-statistics.html

http://www.bullyingstatistics.org/content/school-bullying-statistics.html