Their Imperious Actions

How many deaths happen in a year? 55.3 million world wide. How about people who commit suicide each year? 1 million world wide . That's a lot of people. And it's not as much as 55.3 million but if you think about it, 1 million is still a lot.

About 4,400 of them are young people. According to research, bully victims are 2 to 9 times more likely to commit suicide than non-victims. Suicide is the third leading cause of death among young people. That's pretty big if you think about it. Out of all the young people (18 and younger) who live in this world and suicide is the 3rd leading cause of death. Kind of mind-blowing right?

Take Destiny for example, one day she went home hoping to talk to her friends around the world on the internet. Except when she did, she wasn't expecting something so vile on her accounts. She received many threats and had been bullied over the internet. As time grew, she couldn't deal with it anymore. So as a result, she shut down all her accounts and lost contact with her best friends around the world. She later became depressed. She became more of an introvert and then after a while, she cut herself.

Many teens are depressed due to bullying. And they tend not to tell anyone because they're scared. Ms. Schwartz, a school counselor at HMS stated, "Some students have expressed they don't want to be known as a snitch, and others have feared the bullying may get worse." She also stated, "I have worked here for 16 years, so probably 100s [Of people that have reported bullying they've witnessed/experienced]" So out of the thousands and thousands of students from 6th to 8th grade at HMS throughout the 16 years, only 100s have reported bullying. This is a problem that should be solved. When victims of bullying don't report these incidents it can lead them to hurt themselves and/or commit suicide.

Suicide and cutting aren't the only way out of bullying. It might seem as if shutting yourself out and being an introvert is the only way to deal with this. It's not. Many people suggest trying to talk to a councilor about it. Or tell a teacher about who's bullying you. And if it's over the internet, block and report them.

✨🔱The Recognition of Them🔱✨

I am grateful for many things in life. For one I am grateful for my best friends who supported me. Well...there's only 3. Mya, Kailyn, and Audrey. Im so glad I have them in my life because I know that no matter what they'll be there for me and they'll support me no matter what. Another thing im grateful for is my little brother. Whenever I'm down he tends to cheer me up and make my day. And although he is annoying at times, I still love him. And when things get hard for me and I'm really close to giving up, I think about him and how he looks up to me. I think about how he sometimes dreams of becoming as "smart" as me when he grows up. I know that becuase I used to look up to my siblings like that. Anyways there's one last thing im grateful for. Im grateful for being me. When I was little I tried so hard to be like other people. To become as "great" as them and become the popular kid (I guess) and eventually I stopped trying and became me. It's stupid now that I think about it and I don't really know why I wanted to do that because I never really liked it. But I eventually stopped and just be who I want to be. A lot of people like me for who I am, even though I'm such a weirdo, but it's nice to stop trying and just express who I am. You know? Anyways those were the things I'm grateful for in life. 💙💚

The Joyful Butterfly

So my name is Vanessa D. And I don't really know why my parents chose this name for me but it's whatever. Usually they're very meticulous on what they name their children but then I guess they were just like "Hey, we don't know what to name this goddess child but let's just name her Vanessa because it's nice." And poof! A walking goddess. Anyways I looked up my name online and it means "Butterfly". And my last name means slender, joyful, and delightful. So I guess that mixes into a joyful, slender, butterfly. I tried to include my middle but when I searched it up, I couldn't find any deeper meaning. It just said that it was a shortened version of another name. And that's all it said. So I just stuck with not including my middle name. I kind of got interested in what my moms last name meant (because I took my dads last name) and I searched it up. It meant "stone-breaker". It's a derivative of marro, aka hammer. So yea. My name is Joyful Butterfly. And if I took my moms last name it would be Joyful Stone-Breaker or Joyful Hammer. It's pretty cool if you actually think about it.