youtube/watch?v=ltun92DfnPY For your consideration.... Shane Koyczan in his emotionally charged poem-turned-video To This Day captures incredibly for me just how deeply devastating and long-lasting the impacts of harmless childhood name-calling and bullying can really be... Here is an excerpt of some parts that especially moved me... Id recommend watching it, however... ... i’m not the only kid who grew up this way , surrounded by people who used to say that rhyme about sticks and stones, as if broken bones hurt more than the names we got called - and we got called them all ... so we grew up believing no one would ever fall in love with us ... that we’d be lonely forever. She was eight years old ... our first day of grade three when she got called ugly we both got moved to the back of the class, so we would stop get bombarded by spit balls ... but the school halls were a battleground where we found ourselves outnumbered day after wretched day ... we used to stay inside for recess because outside was worse ... outside we’d have to rehearse running away or learn to stay still like statues giving no clues that we were there ... in grade five they taped a sign to her desk that read beware of dog... to this day, despite a loving husband, she doesnt think she’s beautiful, because of a birthmark that takes up a little less than half of her face ... kids used to say she looks like a wrong answer that someone tried to erase, but couldnt quite get the job done ... and they’ll never understand that she’s raising two kids whose definition of beauty begins with the word mum because they see her heart before they see her skin - that she’s only ever always been amazing ... ...but I want to tell them that all of this shit is just debris leftover when we finally decide to smash all the things we thought we used to be ... and if you can’t see anything beautiful about yourself then get a better mirror - look a little closer - stare a little longer! ...because there’s something inside you that made you keep trying despite everyone who told you to quit... ...They have to be wrong.
Posted on: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 12:15:12 +0000
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