a voice that is in need to be heard

Posted: 3/8/2013

I lived life as if everyday was going to be my last... years back I went to this school where you have to be a somebody or you get kicked... and as the story goes I became my class' punching bag and stress ball. I spent most of the years hanging out in the clinic, eating lunch under the stairs, and if "something" is happening in the stairs I spend lunch in the comfort room. People there would make me carry a microwave from one building to the other, will always target me in soccer and dodge ball because they see that I am the weakest out of all of them and literally I had no friends. I could not act upon it and until this moment I feel as though they will be back for me and they will come again and hurt me. I have had two to three suicide attempts already luckily I am still alive as of this moment because I realize what I'll be leaving behind once I am gone.

I'm 17 and I am in college now, Dream big, yet start small and that is why I have created a focus group and a signature campaign around our school in which the same problem is now being addressed. I may still be scared but reading all of this I feel that I am not alone. I am also a voice that is in need to be heard, ;I am a fighter because of all of you and I thank you for all of the confidence boost.

No one should experience this, no one has the right to make you feel like you are a nobody. Yes, they do have the right to speak but that doesn't necessarily mean that they have a right to hurt someone. :)

By: Hollie