What Makes THEM Tick I can count on it every year. People tormenting me and driving me crazy and the worst thing is they wont leave me alone. They won't drop it. It makes me so mad. Sometimes I want to kill them all. Be done with it never have to deal with them again. But, then what do I do, live the rest of my life in fear, in hiding hopping that no one ever catches me. What kind of life would that be? Then again, what kind of life am I leading now? I never fit in or belonged to any group or club. Im not in the popular group, wasn't with nerds, or the cool group. I was somewhere in the middle. I didnt have many friendsmaybe a few? They always said they could see anger in me, but that they didn't know where it was coming from. What should I do? I know what, I should kill them all! This disturbing letter was written and found on a boys laptop the day after he brought a gun to school. Luckily no one was hurt. A friend thought she had seen something sticking out of his backpack earlier in the morning. The0 young boy had enough bullets in his bag that he could have killed everyone in the school. It really makes you think. What would have happened if that young girl had not thought she had seen the gun; how many people would have died. As someone once said, "would it kill you to be nice to someone once in a while?" In this case it might have saved your life. Just think how many people have you smiled to, talked to in a kindly way, or just have been nice to, instead of giving them a dirty look. All over America we are fighting a civil war with each other everyday. Think of all the shootings, robberies, and all the violence that we see in every day life. Therapists try to blame video games and say that they are too violent. The video games might help, but what builds up the rage in the first place. Not the video games. Its the pears the people around you. If they make you mad everyday of your life, it might feel good to see them tremble, to see them in fear for once. How many people have you made mad today, made cry, or feel bad about them selves. Just think the next time you go to give that dirty look think, am I making myself a target? Be nice to everyone and stay safe. Dont become a target, become a friend to everyone.
*Gives Bryan a HUGE hug* Oh Bryan. That is so true. You really touch me and it's such an important message you give here. Thanks so much. Not only US have these problems. We have them too here in Europe, maybe not to that extent, but it's here. You are so right Bryan. Let us think first and try to be friendly to each other, not only here at worlds, but in our daily lifes too. :classic:
Amen...I agree with you all... My grandma always told us kids... Keep your words soft and sweet, you never know when you may have to eat them. A soft word turns away wrath. and finally, Always treat others like you would want them to treat you.
The last one is always the hardest one to do...Sometimes I'm tempted to treat them exactly how they did me, even though I know any joy From doing so would quickly be replaced by guilt...
It is a sad part of society that the kids are becoming so violent. It makes you wonder what is going on inside them. Is there something that you can say or do to help ease their pain. I have seen so many that are at war with the world and themselves. I hope that what I say and do makes a difference. I strive for that in everything I do. I work with boys, and it can be hard sometimes to reach certain ones, but it always pays off when you see them start to become respectable young men.
I think with all these cliques in today's society people are just feeling outcasts....and these cliques riddiculing others isn't helping the problem.
That's true Josh. Seems like it's some kind of "sport" to be rude and bring others down. People tend to pay attention to all bed things - not the good ones. Kids needs more attention. They try to be good and get nothing for it. So they start to behave badly and . Wow! What do you know! They get all this attention, even if negative. Teachers tend do the same. Almost never encourage and gives attention to the positive, only the negative. So when kids grow up, they are "taught" to pay attention to negative things. And it's so "fun" to make a fool of someone else. People did that to them so "what's the big deal". I always try to do the opposite, but it's not easy to go against a stream of negativism. But I believe that if we start to focus on the positive things, we will create a better environment in the end.
well...nowadays over here both parents are working and the ones to look after the children are either maids, childcare centers or grandparents....this causes a lot of problems such as a poor relationship between the child and his/her parents not only that...the child is also not raised properly...
Exactly. That's what I think is wrong with some of the kids nowadays.. Plus, a lot of them don't seem to know what's reality, and what's entertainment. Frankly I think it's the parents job to teach the child what is and isn't real - and spend time telling them what is wrong. I know where I am I've seen a lot of parents let their child do whatever he/she wants to do, and a couple years later that child is in trouble with the law in one way or another..
A documentary that aired here a year or two ago, called "daycare" the biggest social engineering experiment in the past one hundred years. It also went on to list the growing list of problems it has spawned...all the way from alienation in families to the growing crime problems...Let's face it, when children are left to raise themselves in a moral vacuum, how can we be surprised at the choices they end up making?! My country has been pushing for a universal daycare that would cost millions and force many stay-at-home moms to work to pay the higher taxes (and our taxes are already at close to 50%!). I didn't have kids, for some one earning minimum wage, to warp their minds and turn them against the values that I hold dear or for them to be home alone, getting their values from a television set because I am always at work. In my country, many parents make lots of money and spend lots on their kids (with toys and gadgets) but neglect the important things, like talking to their kids and spending time with them.
I am fortunate enough to be a stay at home mom. It is hard sometimes, but that is the choice that Bruce and I made when we first got married. Being able to be home for my sons is defiently paying off. We do the best we can to make sure that they are well rounded and well grounded for the world we live in today. We try and provide them with a lot of different possitive experiences and to expose them to other cultures so that they see that we are all just people, we may do things a bit differently, but we are all the same in the way that we all have feelings. If there is only two things that I could teach them, I hope that it is manners and to be show respect to others.
LOL Bryan, you are a cut up! I play that with my boys, and we have a blast trying to find each other.
My brother used to say: "Do unto others as they would do unto you - only do it first". (I, personally, don't agree with that. Do unto others as you would wish them to do unto you). I don't know why but that reminds of a Yorkshire saying: "They are all daft but thee and me - and I have my doubts about thee,"
I personally agree with things said about the way kids are brought up. when i look at society (especially at my high school) i see an environment i dont want to be in because of immorality of it. most those kids in my school can do virtually what they want and the parents dont do much. The high school students are a little better but i pity those who have to deal witht the middle school kids. its as if the parents dont punish them for anything. one middle schooler that used to be my friend told me of a party he went to with a bunch of his friends and they were doin stuff that cant (or shouldn't) be mentioned here. I think at least some of it hinges on social position. kids want to be cool, they want to be popular. If they cant be there then they want to be part of the next coolest group and so on, and they want it so bad that they will do almost anything to be part of the group. For some reason they think "if i go out and have a few beers and get drunk with these guys maybe i'll be cool like them" or "smoking will make me look cool, all the other cool people do it" they'll model all of their behavior after the "cool" people as much as they can. just to be cool. and some may even get mad at their peers because they wont accept them as cool (as the kid in the first post did) and then they'll resort to violence because they were never accepted in society as they wanted to be. thats just my insight into what i've seen in high schools and teenage people.
