2008 - Secondary - Honorable Mention - Parkes

Yessica Rodriguez
8th Grade, Age 14
Project Chrysalis Middle School, Houston, TX
Title: No Dissing, Essay

Jan 18, 2008

No Dissing

Have you ever experienced being bullied by someone? It's a terrible feeling having people laugh at you and call you names. You feel frustrated and depressed. This stops you from doing important things. Your life starts taking a different path and it's focused on trying to impress everybody that is around you.

Name calling is bad! How would you like it if somebody would go up to you and call you dumb face or something that annoys you? It wouldn’t be "cool." There is no reason for you to call someone like that or for somebody to all you a name. it will affect you! They say words don't' touch you, that they go flying but that is not true. Sometimes words have an amazing power to bring you down. This doesn’t only happen to girls. Boys have feelings too! You may say, "he is a boy. He can take it!" but no. Boys may feel bad as well. I’ve had boys come up to me, telling me how annoying it is to hear other boys laughing at them and having no other choice but to laugh with them.

Another reason that name calling is wrong is because hurting people’s feelings is not good. We should all love each other like brothers and sisters. This is the reason why God gave us life. Your emotions are important just like any other thing. Nobody is perfect, but we all should at least try to be better. Imagine if everyone would love each other, this world could be better in every way. Now imagine everyone hating each other. This wouldn’t be pretty at all.

Tragedies wouldn't be happening as much if every person would get along. This could be a peaceful world. You just need to put your part. It's sad having everybody be scared of you because you are known as the big bully that nobody could even try to mess with. Kids like that end up having a lonely life without friends. There is tones of reason for you not to be a bully and destroy sombody's life like trash! I mean, why would you want to make someone’s life miserable.

There is no way to describe the feeling you get when they bully you around sometimes you don't care but most likely you start thinking it is true and your self-esteem goes down. It could take days, weeks, months or even years after you start feeling bad. No matter the reason, what goes around comes around…