Journal #7 Bullying

Bullying is usually only considered to have an effect on the victim. The victim can receive a physical bullying where they take pain from what the bully does to them. The bully could also give the other person an emotional devastation where they have a pain in their feelings. Another type of bullying would be when they hurt another person via the internet or any sort of technology. This is commonly referred to as cyber bullying. All of these forms of bullying could have definite repercussions on the victim. The victim could lose some self esteem because they are constantly being put down. They could also be feeling miserable all the time if they are constantly being physically abused. It is also a possibility that the victim could sort of blow up. When the bully takes it too far, the victim could then retaliate or even take it to a level of insanity. The victim could do something irrational like bring a gun or other weapon to school. This could harm many innocent people or just hurt the bully all because he did something as stupid as hurt the feelings of someone. The effect on the bully could be death in this case. It is of course usually not that severe. Usually the bully will get a form of instant relief or almost gratification from hurting someone else. They feel better because they make someone else feel worse. It is not the best way at all to deal with a problem. The bully really does not get much out of it. They hurt someone's feelings, get some relief, but then they will probably feel bad later. Usually people do not take joy in having hurt another's feelings when they look at it in hindsight. Bullying does not really benefit anyone. The only positive thing that could come out of it is maybe making the victim stronger when they are bullied the next time. With one positive, bullying is not something that should continue.