The facts are coming out. The boy was bullied and he he obviously had some trouble dealing with it. If you see his picture, you can see where some jackass could be pretty brutal. The kid had a bright orange 'fro, not saying that is where it came from, but we all know what kids can be like. I am redhead, and I was bullied, mostly for my weight. If kids had taken to the whole "Ginger" thing like they have now, it would have been even more brutal. Instead, I just got punched in the arm everyday by one of the football team linemen. I was on the football and basketball teams too, but everybody loves the hate on the fat kid. I never thought about suicide, I imagined faking it a few times, just to see the looks on their faces, but I am too self-absorbed to hurt myself. Instead I used it as a tool to motivate myself to rise above that crap and be better than those people.
It is truly sad to see a child take away their own chance to grow up. Life gets better. Those bullies peak in high school, they typically end up nobodys. It is the nerds that get picked on that become something, but I know how hard it can be to believe that when you are 13, hitting puberty, all those emotions and testosterone building in your body. Zits, awkwardness, not feeling like you fit into your own body, that is the hardest age and everyone is going through it and so many kids cope by pointing out other's flaws to take attention away from their own.
This kid likely felt he would show those kids what they did to him. The problem with that theory is 1- you aren't there to reap the reward, and 2- The kids who bully, they don't give a shizz about you in the first place. It won't have much effect on them, not now. 15 years from now, when they are all growed up, they may realize that they indirectly caused this kid to do this, but then they will just go back to checking out customers at the quick mart where they work.
It is truly sad to see a child take away their own chance to grow up. Life gets better. Those bullies peak in high school, they typically end up nobodys. It is the nerds that get picked on that become something, but I know how hard it can be to believe that when you are 13, hitting puberty, all those emotions and testosterone building in your body. Zits, awkwardness, not feeling like you fit into your own body, that is the hardest age and everyone is going through it and so many kids cope by pointing out other's flaws to take attention away from their own.
This kid likely felt he would show those kids what they did to him. The problem with that theory is 1- you aren't there to reap the reward, and 2- The kids who bully, they don't give a shizz about you in the first place. It won't have much effect on them, not now. 15 years from now, when they are all growed up, they may realize that they indirectly caused this kid to do this, but then they will just go back to checking out customers at the quick mart where they work.
