Confession #19: Some people are just plain old "Mean"

You know, it's really quite sad, the world we live in today. You can't trust anyone; everyone is suspicious of everyone else, and no one really knows what anyone's true motives are for anything. There is absolutely no sense of trust anymore. And, maybe you've noticed this as well, but I think that people have gotten even crueler in the last few years. If you've seen the news in the last few years, bullying, both at school and on the internet has become major problem. See, the problem is, is that when people think of bullying, they think of it as one kid being mean to another kid, and when people think of bullying they typically think of it as involving psychical violence. Well, it's not just kids who are involved in this, and it's not just about being psychically violent. Anyone can experience being bullied, not just kids on the playground at school. Sometimes, bullying happens in the home too; older siblings bullying their younger siblings, or parents bullying their kids (well, I guess that would more be considered child abuse, but I think it's still kind of the same thing) and it's not just about psychical violence. The worse kind of bullying is the psychological kind, where words hurt more than a punch in the face ever would.

I personally have never actually been bullied, like at school or by kids who were picking on me and giving me a hard time, but I've experienced bullying in other ways, so I can understand what it's like. To me, bullying is what happens when someone puts you down and makes you feel small, and that can be done in both the psychical way and definitely in the psychological way. I've experienced more psychological bullying than psychical, and I think that has hurt me a lot more than if someone had beat me up. People have said horrible things to me that have made me feel worthless, insignificant, hopeless, and have led me down some dark roads in my mind that I never wanted to go down. Like I said, some people are just plain old mean.

I heard this song just the other day. I know, it came out last year, so most people think of it as "old" now, but I don't care, I love the song, and I love the message it has. I would like to dedicate this song to all the mean people in my life. You may have hurt me in the past, but I'm not going to let you get into my head anymore; I'm not going to let you take me down that road again. So, here you go, this is "Mean" by Taylor Swift.