Bullying, Rebecca, and Peer Pressure

Well hello :). There's less than a week left of summer! I'm so excited for high school, and I can't wait to see my teachers and meet new friends and see if I have lots of classes with my old ones! But I'm also kind of scared, 'cause a friend told me that freshmen get bullied a lot.

=.= I mean really, what's the point of bullying someone? Punching someone else doesn't make you look stronger, especially if they're WEAKER than you. And saying someone's fat or ugly doesn't make you skinnier or prettier. So seriously people..stop it. (AND SPREAD THE WORD OF GOD!! - another sad attempt at being a witness...)

I'm not so much afraid of bullying as I am of being put in a situation where I kinda have to stop it. It's happened before, but it wasn't like.."bullying" bullying. It was more like stealing people's stuff or yelling at a younger kid to get you potato chips or whatever.

So usually I just say, "HEY. Don't be rude." And then they stop. :) But every time that's happened it's always been someone younger than me bullying someone even MORE younger than me, so technically I have seniority over them..and "therefore they're inferior to us", as a wise friend once said. :P

*Sigh* but that's just the kind of thinking that starts bullying, right?

Aha that was deep. Anyways DUDE I don't know how many of you guys have read this, but Rebecca is a pretty good book. It's not the best I've ever read, but..it's well written. But --SPOILER ALERT!!!-- I hate the end!! WHY would they have to burn the frickin' house down?!? Manderley sounded like such a pretty and serene place, and Maxim even said he would "give her children." But now THAT dream's crushed thanks to FAVELL AND MRS. DANVERS, the stupid people. >.< Now they're stuck reliving the past in a hotel room, and they're afraid to do anything involving their senses. :( How can they have kids like that?!

But I like the storyline, how even though he's twice her age she and him can still love each other fully:

I think this reminds me somehow of her and Maxim. (It's obvious the girl's trying to save the guy.) Maybe it's just me, but..wow it's so cute! XD (Side note: what is her name?! Makes me feel so insecure not knowing.)

Ooh I have another cute picture to show you guys:

This is SO my checklist for life. :P Well like..most of the things on it. It's funny how it's mostly the same for everyone, isn't it? Like we lose our individuality..

Now we all try to wear the same clothes (skinny jeans, brand names) and eat the same food (healthy, hot cheeto fries) and do homework the same way (distracted) and now we want to LIVE the same way too! Peer pressure really is a strong thing, except it's not only in teens...it works for every age group.

I remember our speaker at camp, Jeremiah, told us he showed everyone his butt just because the "cool kid" did so. And the "cool kid" did it on accident. =.=' Do you see what this world is coming to?

Anyways I don't want to make this too long. Thanks for reading this blog, and good luck in the new semester!

Bullying :-/

Heey guys! First off, before I begin my ranting, I'd like to say thanks to Alex, Michelle, CLAIRE, and any OTHER unknown readers. (I'm really surprised. Once my polls had up to 8 votes! Of course, the same person could've voted more than once, but I like to stay on the positive side. :D)

*And sorry for surprising you with my cussing, Claire. I'll try to watch my language in the future. :P

Well, back to the original topic. I'm just really annoyed yet amused at how mean people are these days. They just go around teasing other people, and I don't get how they think it's fun.

Ok, well, I do...but it doesn't do much for the other person, and you'll just make another enemy. I think it's better to have friends, but maybe that's just me? (lol that rhymes)

Anyways. Every day I have to carpool home with Jeremy and David, and today we had to wait a while because Jeremy's brother was having an asthma attack or something. So these 2 white kids and this other African American kid just come up and start bothering Jeremy, or something. But they didn't have a reason to. Jeremy was just minding his own business sitting up on the Tessa Lakes sign and reading. I mean, he looked kinda dorky, but everyone has their moments. He just has more than the norm. LOL jk, I'm just joking.

But seriously.

XD anyways, so this one kid just goes up to him and starts messing with him. I don't even know under what category of teasing or harrassing or whatever this falls under, but he was just doing weird explosion things and fake-punching Jeremy and pretending to ram into his stomach. Which is stupid if you ask me, because according to Newton's 3rd law (I know, i'm so smart. XP lol jk.), every action has an equal and opposite reaction. So therefore, if this kid rams into Jeremy's stomach as hard as he can, he'll bounce off as hard as possible, and land on Michelle's bike, giving him a bunch of gashes and whatnot.

But he didn't do that, and he wouldn't stop, and Jeremy got all mad, so Michelle, Yanan, and I WENT TO THE RESCUE! XD

Yup, Michelle was like, "Hey! Get away." And then I was all "go pick on other people. You're not worth him." (I had to say something egotistic for him to get his attention.) And then his friends and him were starting to go away, when Yanan recognized him from band and was all, "You suck at percussion."

This scared them away. I guess Yanan has some "connections"...and we have senority, of course. :) They didn't scream and run away, or anything, but they left, which was an EPIC WIN, if you ask me.

It just bugs me how people put up with the teasing like Jeremy. He could easily sit on the kid and his friends and they'd all suffocate and beg for him to get up. But no, he just stays there trying to pretend that nothing's happening and then run to us.

I can only imagine what happens when we're not there...It's just so sad..

But what bugs me EVEN MORE is how people can't REALIZE that they're being harrassed and teased! They should at least stand up for THEMSELVES. Or laugh it off. Don't play into the people's hands and look like you'll do anything to be their friend. THAT'S RETARDED.

I know no one likes making enemies (well, the people I know don't...most of them), but having annoying fake friends that hate you aren't really that much better... Just make sure that they know that you're not gonna put up with you being their pet, and it should be all good.

Unless of course, your situation is some big muscleman kid who steals lunch money and is the stereotypical bully. Then my only thought to you is good luck, and switch schools.

Well, until then... :) Again, thanks for all my readers, you give me motivation to not waste internet. Have a great life, and enjoy Valentine's Day and CHINESE NEW YEAR!! XD