Something that matters to me..

Something that I believe is important for others to know about is the negative effects and outcomes of bullying. Bullying can be seen as something very minute to some but what it can lead to is far from a small issue and is often neglected. When we think of bullying, most of us imagine children in elementary school being picked on but this issue happens to everyone no matter what your age is. At one point or another, we all have been bullied maybe once, a few times, or we might be currently getting bullied whether it's verbally, physically or through social networking. But the action of getting bullied makes us feel as if something is wrong with us or out of the norm according to society, whether the reason being that the person is a different skin color, has a different taste in music, a different sexual orientation or the fact that they are better than someone else at something. What many of us fail to realize is that the action of being bullied builds up inside these innocent people and it gets difficult to find an outlet and it has often led to very extreme outcomes such as ending one's life. The rates of suicide due to bullying are raising higher and higher and in my opinion, something should seriously be done about it.