When you say something, do you think about how it’s going to affect someone else? About what your words might do to someone? I think everyone needs to. You see on the news about suicides of teenagers who have been tormented to an extent that they don’t see a point in living. Basically, they begin to agree with what people are saying about them.
I’ve seen people joke around and bash on their friends or just the people around them for fun. To be funny. But I don’t think the person saying the insults sees the faces of the ones it’s being said about. They don’t see how the person laughs and then thinks for a second. Because everytime someone says something about you, you think about it. Right? You think “Haha. That’s funny….wait, is that true?” And then you just think way too much into it where you start to become self concious about whatever it is they said about you.
I’ve been told many things about myself that people will say just to make a joke, but I’ve never just laughed and blown it off. It always goes to my head and then I’m just like wow. Is that how people see me? I used to care a lot more about what people said to me, and I’m almost to the point where it’s just like, I don’t give a shit. But it always gets to me just a little bit. Now it’s just to the point where it’s only “Wow. You’re an idiot.”
I’ve been bashed before, and it isn’t fun. At all. And I know that I’ve done it, because I was never aware of how my joking words could affect someone so much. I’ve also seen how someone else’s words affect others. So all I’m trying to say is, think about what you are saying and how they may affect someone else. Is what you have to say really important?
XO
Rachel
