Journal 7

When many people think of bullying and harassment they usually only think of the effects on the victim of the bully. While many detrimental effects are put on to the victim, I think bullying tends to affect both the victim and the bully. For example, if a kid gets beat up, they will obviously have bad feelings towards the event and the person that abused them. Being beat up could make them feel very weak and start a plethora of self esteem problems in the victim. They also may start to harbor resentment for not only the other child that hurt them, but also the system that allowed such a thing to happen to them. This resentment could spread till the victim feels all out hate and this is when they themselves can get violent or cruel. They may figure it is better to be the bully than the victim. The victim could also decide that the pain from the mental and physical pain is just too much and tragically give up on life. The bully too can feel negative effects from bullying someone. After bullying someone the bully may one day feel remorse for all they have done to a specific person. The bully will not a get the chance to atone for what they did and this is something that they will have to live with for the rest of their lives. This remorse could even be multiplied if they drove their victims to extremes like giving up on life. Overall, I think that certain measures should be taken in the future to prevent bullying. I think that if we were to cut down on the bullying in the world then both parties could be saved from the pain that bullying creates. The bully could be saved from later remorse and the victim could be saved from social and emotional stress. In the end the world may be a better place where everyone can feel safe and comfortable because they are not bullied.