Music Save Me

Posted: 11/9/2012

I am 16 years old, now at College.

I had a bad experience at high school with bullying that lasted for just short of three years. It was a group of people that bullied me though it was hard for me to admit it at first.

I sing and play guitar and I genuinely believe that music saved me! I was never the kind of person to change just because of a few comments and so didn't have many friends. In fact I have only really ever had one true friend, my best friend since I was nine. She stood by me the entire time, but some people aren't that lucky.

I started to see things differently in the end. I started noticing people's pain from bullying and how common it really was at my high school, so i did something about it. I stopped feeling sorry for myself and put together a group that anyone could join. There weren't many of us about eleven at most but we were all different and unaccepted in some way. The group would come together on a lunch time with guitars and other instruments to sing and enjoy music together. Though we only ever did one performance in front of a crowd I know it helped boost my confidence.

Since the bullying started in 2007 I had a set plan in my mind "before I left that school I was going to perform in a bullying awareness assembly" and I did just that at the start of 2012.

No one should be made to feel small and unimportant and I do believe that if we all come together we can put a stop to bullying for good!

By: Paige