Someone Shouldn't Have To Die For People To Take Notice

Ok, SO I was originally going to write a blog on my roommate…instead that one will come later and now there is this one. I want to start by linking the following video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdkNn3Ei-Lg

Next I want to say that I have NOTHING against Jonah Mowry, I applaud him for his courage and I am in no way attacking him or anything.

Here is where my problem starts and the basis of this problem is that a 13 year-old boy shouldn’t have to make this kind of video to make people pay attention to his problems. I have seen it a bunch in the past couple of years, no one will take note of someone and their problem until after something tragic has happened to them.

For example, in May of this year a young girl from my area in MT committed suicide because she had been bullied, and apparently her life sucked (not to be insensitive, just a statement). But then about a month after, some of her friends started a thing, I’m not entirely sure if you could call it a charity or what, but they sold bracelets, made t-shirts had a walk around town in recognition of the organization, the called it Hope4Hailey.

I have nothing against organizations like this, kudos to people for standing up to the issues around them…however, we shouldn’t wait till after someone kills themselves to stand up to the issues around us. Or till after something bad happens to one of their friends or someone close to them. People should want to stand up right now for someone who is being bullied in front of them.

Speaking as someone who has not only been a bully at times but as also been bullied, I know how difficult it is too be a bullied. I know that sounds weird, but I was bullied and ended up becoming a bully to some people at times, I think it was my own little way of getting revenge I think. I hope that I never hurt somebody enough to where they took extreme measures, as far as I know everyone I picked on is still alive and well.

But I was bullied to the point of taking extreme measures. I had a lot of things going on in my life and tried to commit suicide when I was in the sixth and seventh grade. I, like Jonah, pulled myself up and saved myself and my life got better. I can’t help but notice that nobody took notice that I was being bullied, and nobody ever will. Not even the adults around me took notice because that is how the world works. The only way somebody would have taken notice of my problems was if I would have actually taken my suicide attempt seriously, that seems to be one of the few times people pay attention.

So I guess the sum of this blog, without continuing to ramble on, is that we should take notice before extreme measures are taken. A 13 year-old boy shouldn’t have to make a YouTube video to make his friends and family notice there was something wrong. A freshman in high school should have to kill herself to escape her life. Somebody shouldn’t have to be killed in a drunken driving accident for people to take a little bit of notice about the cause. We as people should notice now all the problems that people have before something bad happens to someone we love to take notice.