Educate the bullies

     I've come to believe that bullies are bred by neglect or culture that has not taught them right from the beginning. This neglect and abuse has led them to sadness, which leads to hurt, that leads to anger. They believe that all people should be treated with meanness and loss of feeling. This happens when they have first been neglected. It is our job to teach them that this is the wrong way to feel. The bullies are out there. They start out young and turn into adults who continue this abuse until they are told it is absolutely wrong or until they have children of their own. Coming from neglectful homes, sinking deeper and deeper into "society's hidden pocket of neglect". A child isn't born mean. In fact, it's absolutely the opposite. They are born from God who is total love. So where did it go wrong? Well, one aspect you can blame is the neglect of the one raising that baby. 

    Parenting is tricky. It takes dedication and hard work. No parent is born with all the answers but as long as you put "love" first in the raising of that child, the answers will come. How many beautiful children do we have to see that are thrown to the wind? To defend for themselves or are not being taught the correct way to socialize? Children are committing suicide more and more these days because of the neglect of that bully not receiving the correct path in their growth to adulthood. How can such a young Soul feel such despair? It's because someone on the other side has demeaned them so badly that it felt hopeless. My question is, "how can another child feel so horrible about life or themselves to want to make someone else feel that same way?"

    Bullies have their targets. They pick the weak, the lonely, the outcasts. Not even realizing that within themselves, they possess many of those factors. Bullies usually have been bullied first. That's how they know how to run it. They don't even realize that years later, they will come to regret their actions and feel horrible at the way they treated someone. I've seen it many, many times before and anyone I tell about my own experience of the bullies of my childhood, relate their own stories of how they were also bullied. Every single one of those girls have come up to me in my older life and apologized with such sincerity. All of them. Except for one. Unfortunately, she was one of them that was the cruelest. Maybe someday she will kick her pride to the ground and admit it, because that is the first sign of healing. But I'm not waiting around for that. Instead, I must tell my heart that I have to forgive and pray hard for her. I will help educate our children and adults on the concept of getting rid of bullying. To get out of their comfort zone and stand up for those that they see or know who are getting tortured by someone's abuse of words or actions. 

     If we can stop it when they are young, they will grow to be strong, loving and faithful friends and companions to the weak and abused people of this world. 

     Talking to our children will stop bullying and this education will dispel the darkness that's enveloping around us. We can be lights of Hope and Compassion that Jesus Christ Himself taught us. 

     Let's be lights for this world and destroy this darkness that so many children feel is their only friend. Because someday, somehow, they will realize that the light is shining within them. The key that unlocks their happiness and trust in God and in humanity.