SHANE KOYCZAN, THANK YOU

TO THIS DAY...

"The uphills were mountains and the downhills were cliffs"

Bullying... 

It is not a subject that often finds its way into the lime-light concerning adult life. 

But the fact is, it is just as bad in adulthood as it is in school. 

We breed bullies. 

If you do it in school, how do you think you will behave when you do "grow" up? 

If no one ever gets it through your head that is is NOT okay, you will simply continue to do it.

 As the generations continue to breed and raise bullies it will only worsen. 

And as the bullies grow into adulthood they will continue to bully others. 

Those thing's that they say pierce a victim like a broken shard of glass. 

Leaving a scar, jagged and deep. 

Scars last a lifetime and can only be hidden. 

They do not go away. 

Breed and grow bullies to terrorize the meek ones. 

Or stand up and stop the cycle. 

Teach what it is to say something hurtful to someone. 

You cannot take your words back. 

Once they leave your mouth they float around in space until they find their target and lodge themselves into it. 

They sink their venomous teeth into the body and they fill you with fears and doubts and those thing's become your truth. 

All because one person did not stand up and man up and teach. 

Love.     Care.     Compassion.     Empathy. 

Rather we teach apathy and hate. 

Selfishness and cruelty. 

When will it stop? 

It won't... if we do not stop it.

"And if you can't see anything beautiful about yourself, get a better mirror, look a little closer, stare a little longer. Because there's something inside you that made you keep trying despite everyone that told you to quit. You built a cast around your broken heart and signed it yourself; you signed it, "THEY WERE WRONG.'"