To This Day

To This Day

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltun92DfnPY

This video wasn't something I could have necessarily related to but it managed to touch me and also helped me to see the emotions behind a bully victim. The video talked about a younger Shane Koyzcan going through elementary school and even his struggles at home. He talked about being ridiculed for his weight and how even the girl he liked was being bullied and how the mean, cruel words of other kids changed his whole school experience. He spoke about the pain and what was beneath the surface other than tears that no one could see. He mentioned the metaphor "sticks and stones may break your bones but words will never hurt you" saying that wanting to just set yourself free from all those painful words does not hurt less than a broken bone and that the metaphor brushes over the fact that words can kill you and that everyone is different and will react differently to harsh words and verbal abuse. In the video it showed a girl and a boy holding hands, being sat at the back of the class to avoid spit balls and staying inside at recess to avoid what could happen outside. It bombarded them. He talked about her growing up to become a wonderful mother who's children see her heart before her skin and that's how everyone should be. His parents abandoned him and left him for adoption and all the kids who could still go home to their mom and dad had the audacity to tell him to "get over it" in grade 10 and caused him to want to kill himself. This video is a perfect display of how bad it can actually get and the toll it can take on people. That someone would rather kill them self than be who they are. "He's a stick of TNT lit from both ends" speaks of he's slowly disintegrating and the only thing he has  left is what's in the middle--heart. Despite being an inspiration to friends, he's only a conversation topic between people who don't understand. He says that people ho hurt are merely like the trees in the forest that fall and no one can hear, that we fall, fail, die, end and no one even cares. The people who hurt you were wrong. You shouldn't have to search for something beautiful about yourself and that they were just completely and utterly wrong about everything they've said to you to push you down. I think it could prevent people from going overboard and add support because it's letting us know that they're wrong and that's that. Wrong. It doesn't only show that other people are going through what you're going through but that you can make it through. I am sure this video could cause bullies and just cold-hearted people to realize that what they're expressing to others isn't just going in one of their ears and coming out the other, it sticks with them for years and years and in my opinion, if this video doesn't bring awareness to bullies I don't know what will because it's message is so loud and so clear.