Its All Self Explanatory

Welcome to High School

Think back to Highs School... Thought it was bad then? You would be appalled at how it is now. I'm currently a Sophomore and school is my own personal hell. Everyday I am Bullied, made fun of, pushed, shoved, and judged without reason. Rumors spread like wildfires, and people keep getting nastier every single day. At first it was okay, but is still progressing into something unknown to me. You have to act a certain way, dress a certain way, be friends with certain people for some of your fellow peers to even notice that you exist. If you are oustide of the realm of their perfect reality, you are just someone to step on and bring down for their own pleasure. Maybe pushing us down the staircase brings them an adrenaline rush? knocking the binders out of a rushing students hands than kicking it across the hall just for laughs? Talk terribly right next to someone with gazing glances to see if you have heard? I have friends who are afraid to go to school because of the people there. People are getting more and more violent, and scary.Schools have polices to stop bullying, but what they don't realize is that if you get help... the people that are associated with the bully will go after you. But its not like they will believe you anyways. They never do, the one who is crushing you does it because they are the 'Golden Children'. Never once did anything wrong.. if they only knew. It is a never ending chain. Today we can get away from it. It follows us home, to sports, even when we are alone. Cyber-bullying being the worst. In today's school we have to have the internet to even do homework, you have to have a phone to even get in contact with anyone. This viscous bullying cant be solved... it'll only worsen. Take it from me. I know. I face it everyday, but I suppose that's the price one has to pay for being an individual. It used to be encouraged.... now it can destroy you.

America-the-OhSoImportant

I have recently came to notice that, everyone lately has been so judgmental... so.. " I''m so much better than thou." You cant say this is not true. In the news media, going to the grocery store, and the more prominent in my world... High School. Why is it in America we have lost all compassion for others? Everyday I see people shot down by others, simply because they can do it, and simply don't care. The recent sinking of the cruise ship in Italy is even one example. I'm not sure if anyone notices but when speaking of how many people were on the boat; how many people died; etc., but nobody seems to care about anyone but the 'Americans'. There were hundreds of people on the boat in danger and facing potiental death...but do they report on those people? No. They freak out and only cover things about the '126 Americans!'.  Making such a large deal about just people of our country. Do we not care about others? Why not? Oh yeah, thats right. We supposedly live in America, the greatest country in the world! Guess that makes us so much more important than everybody else and their bestfriend. Guess what America? Were Not. We live in one of the sickest, debt ridden, rascist, fame-based, judgmental, biased, sexist, homophobic countries in the world. Be Proud America....If the world was a High School.. You would be the head Cheerleader. Looks great, Sounds Great, really isnt, and is the most self centered student in the whole school. Just keep smiling America! They think you look fabulous!