Maybe We Need To Be Bullied

This is always a difficult topic to write about as each day we hear about kids, adolescents, and even adults falling victim to bullying. Some of the most hateful hurtful words you could have ever imagined have been uttered to someone else at some point in their lives. We teach our kids the 'golden rule' and we as adults try to live by that rule, yet we still hear of these instances of bullying.

The skeptic here wants to chime in.

Is bullying necessarily a bad thing?

Over the years the same utterance has crossed your ears to stay true to that 'golden rule', that rule that you should treat people exactly the way that you want to be treated, but it does not always work out that way.

If you are out and about driving and you cut someone else off in your car only to find out that you both are going to the same store at which point you stop to apologize for making that mistake.

You are holding up your end of the golden rule.

The other person, however, still feels the need to badger you for making that mistake, and that is when that rule is breached and the bully comes out at which point you start commenting on anything you can think of about the other person.

As much as we try stop people from being a bully we have all been one in our lives at some point in time, and majority of that time it is directed at someone that is excessively overweight.

Even on the local news, one of the anchors got a hand written sentiment from a viewer about being obese, which she defended in a four-minute rant towards the viewer.

Not to defend the idea of bullying, but no matter how 'nice' you could have told someone, "Hey, I think you need to drop a few pounds," that person on the other end might not even pay attention.

Back to that example of the 'golden rule'- the apologetic individual was cordial and attoned for his mistake, but the person he had upset did not get the message, and it was only after it became a heated argument that he started to understand.

Maybe we need to be bullied from time to time.

Maybe we need to get that shot of reality to make us do something to fix this problem. There are constructive ways to do that, and we should try and find those, because the clock is ticking on getting people to consciously make a change to an every growing problem like obesity before it is too late.

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