Teasing
I believe that everyone should be treated with the same respect as everyone else. Anyone should be able to walk anywhere in this world and not be made fun of because they are “different”. When I say someone’s different, I mean there is a physical or mental problem with them. It’s not right to make fun of someone for something that they have no control over. Just because someone thinks differently then you do or talks differently then you do doesn’t give you the right to make fun of them.
Teasing someone because of any reason is never a right thing. It makes the person that has a problem feel even worse about themselves and it makes you look like a jerk. I hate teasing a lot and I wish it would all just stop. Teasing is a huge problem and it makes people do things that they normally would never do.
If you’ve ever been teased, then you know how that feels. You feel empty and you hurt inside. You feel like you’re worth nothing and you start trying to figure out what you did to deserve this. When the teasing gets worse, you just want everything in your life to end.
I have personally been teased in my life and when it happened, I felt really bad about myself. I used to get home and just start crying, trying to let out all the hurt and pain. I felt so horrible and miserable and I thought that there was no one that I could talk to about getting teased. I shut out the whole world. Nothing in my life mattered.
Not only did I get teased a lot but I also used to tease a lot of kids growing up to try and make up for feeling so bad. There was one kid whose name was Tyler that I teased really badly. I used to pick on him and hate him as much as I could. Looking back, I realized that I should have never said those things and put him through that. I’m really sorry for everything that I ever did to him. Even now, six years later, I still feel bad for all of the things that I did. Every insult that I ever said to anyone wasn’t right and now I have to live with that rare type of guilt for the rest of my life.
From all of my experiences in this field, I have realized that no one should ever get teased or made fun of under any circumstances. You should never make fun of someone because you personally feel bad about yourself. If you only remember one thing from this speech, then just remember that teasing someone is never at all right. I hope that after this speech that you now see people the same way that I see them. People that have real problems and real emotions. That is what I believe and I will continue to believe it, forever.
