Breaking the Silence |
A challenging period in life is adolescence. Scientifically speaking, this is the time when a person’s physical, emotional, hormonal, and mental changes start to occur as their body’s anatomy gets more complex. It’s a stage of life when people begin to doubt their own existence, become consumed by anxieties and insecurities, strive to blend in as much as possible to appear intriguing or attractive enough, and, in a time like today, the competition has gotten a little too intense. Too far, that it has culminated in youngsters disguising their uncertainties and anxieties behind facades of being intriguing, and for that, they’re willing to strain all the rules, and even go beyond that if it doesn’t work out, even if it means hiding themselves by bringing someone else down.
We are all familiar with the term “bully.” I am fairly sure a vast population, while reading this, is experiencing flashbacks of how they were treated back when they were in high school or secondary school, since, no matter how much we deny it, we have all suffered........