This is an original descriptive essay written by our online student Aarav Mathur. Aarav is a young orator and writer from Jaipur. We are proud to have him as a student in our Online Creative Writing & Public Speaking Program, utilizing Applied Storytelling and Theatre tools under the mentorship of Trainer Khusshbo Chokhaani. We congratulate Aarav for this exemplary true self-expression.

Dealing With Bullying

Have you ever been bullied by elder students at school or by people the same age as you? Bullying is a bad thing people do if they see you are weaker than them or see you have flaws, this is caused by imbalanced power. Bullying is-

• Name calling
• Hitting
• Laughing at a person for small mistakes

Once somebody bullies a person, they make them a target, they even form groups and make a single target and control them and their actions. The group/single person may continue with the same target until the target will stand up for themselves by complaining to a school authority. They would be able to overcome the bully and their fear of being bullied.

I have also been bullied in second grade (three years ago). at that current time, I wasn’t good at many things including studies, sports and making friends, I only made two friends but then I got to know one of them actually spoke bad and false things about me behind my back. He physically bullied me by pushing my other friend’s hand into my hand when he had a pencil because of which the pencil came into my hand. The bully also made fun of me when I used broad sketch pens for highlighting. Then he said “you can’t even afford a highlighter bro, how poor are you?” he continued this making large groups and told them to hit me. He himself grabbed my hand and put a fork inside. The next 4 months I was bullied until the year passed and we got separated into different sections. Now he has almost forgotten me. Although the time has passed and I’ve made more friends than him, I still bear a grudge against him. Now I’ve thought of many things which I could have done to him like complaining to the coordinator, hitting him back, me myself making groups to stand up to him or simply talking bad about him too. I later found out why he bullied me.

• He himself didn’t have a highlighter
• He used to be bullied in first grade by my other friend (eraser thrown out the window)
• Was like me an average student in class but didn’t want others to harass him so instead said only I was the one with bad marks
• Found me weaker against him

In my opinion bullying shouldn’t be done by people for any reason as it is wrong. It hurts their feelings and may turn into reasons for heated arguments. On the other hand, kindness brings happiness and jolly to everybody unlike bullying. If everyone starts bullying the world would be a rotten mess. It’s not just about being rude- people will start having hatred against you and you will face consequences. If bullying stops it’d be much better and more relationships will be built, the world would turn into a better place. This is hundreds of miles far thing away from current situation of bullying.

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