walking next to you...

if you know me, you know i love anderson cooper:) it is true, he is one of my favorites. i know it sounds so silly but i don't mind...i still like him. i was watching anderson cooper 360 and tonight the first story was about a fifteen year old girl that hung herself because of the awful bullying she experienced in school. i can't begin to express how sad my heart was hearing about her. she was so sweet looking and new to the country and she experienced so much meanness from her peers and no action was taken. adults witnessed it happening to her and no one defended her:(

it hit really close to home for me because i experienced bullying when i was younger and i remember how horrible it was. i don't talk about it very often...not at all because no matter how much you let go, when you think about it, there is still a bit of pain attached to it. i remember crying and begging my mom to let me stay home from school because i just could not bear to be there. i won't go too much into it but gosh, kids can be so mean and they just shouldn't be. they shouldn't.

i don't know. i am not a parent or anything and i don't know how or where kinds pick up their bullying tendencies but it shouldn't be happening. fifteen year old kids, eleven year old kids, shouldn't be so tormented that they have no escape but suicide. oh gosh it makes me want to cry.

we just really need to step back and make certain that we are not treating others horribly. especially as adults because young people are like sponges and they do pick up good and bad things. what a scary thing that kids are capable of such awful things. we need to love. we need to teach LOVE.

over and out.