Journal #7 - Bullying and Its Effects

Bullying is very unfortunate. It affects the person being bullied very negatively, and you always hear about people committing suicide or taking others' lives for being bullied all of their lives. It usually starts as soon as someone enters school. Once they are around their peers, kids tend to begin the phase of bullying that hopefully goes away once they mature. For the victim, they are usually forced to endure the bullying because sometimes they are not strong enough to stand up to the harsh words or even physical torment. At some point in your life, you will have to deal with bullying. Everyone is judged for who they are in society today, which is not fair, but it is just one of those things that come with growing up nowadays. Another example of an effect of bullying for the victim is an overall isolation for them because of constant self-esteem degradation. There have been countless studies saying that the emotional effects of bullying usually stick with people up into middle-age. I am not exactly sure what kinds of effects are put on the one doing the bullying itself. Depending on how heartless they are, there could possibly be some extent of guilt on their part. I have bullied my sister time and time again, and usually I feel really bad afterwards. For the kind of people who bully because of the negative things going on in their lives, little to no guilt is probably felt at all. They seem like the type of individuals who enjoy being mean to make themselves feel better. It would be really nice if we could completely do away with bullying, but for now the problem still runs rampant throughout society. I blame our rude and sarcastic generation for the overall increase in things like this certain subject matter. People need to grow up, shut their mouths, and realize what they say before they go and act on being a bully.