It Still Happens

“That the native does not like the tourist is not hard to explain. For every native of every place is a potential tourist, and every tourist is a native of somewhere. Every native everywhere lives a life of overwhelming and crushing banality and boredom and desperation and depression, and every deed, good and bad, is an attempt to forget this. Every native would like to find a way out , every native would like a rest, every native would like a tour. But some natives—most native in the world—cannot go anywhere. They are too poor. They are too poor to go anywhere. They are too poor to escape the reality of their lives; and they are too poor to live properly in the place where they live, which is the very place you, the tourist, want to go—so when the natives see you, the tourist, they envy you, they envy your ability to leave your own banality and boredom, envy your ability to turn their own banality and boredom into a source of pleasure for yourself.”

Bullying is a topic that we are all probably very tired of hearing. Though we make laws and try to stop the bullying, there is still so many that still commit suicide. Not only do we have continuous presentations that show the consequences of bullying and how it affects others, teenagers still bully, more lives lost, and it seems nothing will change. Everyone is trying to prevent bullying from happening, they are all trying to help, even our school is actively involved. But many words--ones that shouldn't be said-- are still said. It's a frightening thing. That teenagers are not valuing others at all. We aren't taking the time to get to know each other; and instead we are judging each other by what we see on the outside, by who we choose to love, by rumors, and it hurts-- not only the person being bullied, not only parents, not only family, not only their close friends and maybe their girlfriend or boyfriend, but it also hurts the people who are trying so hard to stop bullying from ever happening.