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~ Madden
You guys really need to grow up.
Tumblr is a blogging site, it’s meant to be friendly. They have the anonymous option so you can send NICE messages to other bloggers. Telling someone to take their life, hurt themselves or calling them names through anonymous is just ridiculous and immature.
Are…
(via j-ustkitten)
In an average, 16-24 teens or children, commit suicide, weekly, because of bullying. Whether it’s being cyber-bullied, bullied at school, or even bullied at home, they take their lives because they feel that life is not worth living anymore. If you’re being bullied, or know of anyone who is, you need to tell someone, because you can get help. It will change, and things will get better. Words hurt, more than you know.
(via wet-will)
As humans, we possess powerful weapons.
Words.
Yet, we throw them around so easily… especially on websites like Tumblr.
It is so easy to make a comment about someone else and how they live their lives.
It’s especially easy to make a rude or mean comment because we can hide behind the anonymous…
(Source: ohdasnice)
See this boy? His name is Ben Lewis. He was 15-years-old with Asperger’s syndrome. He took his life on November 19th, 2011. He was bullied to death. The blood is on society’s hands. We can either keep pushing the blame onto someone else, or we can step up and change this. Nobody deserves to live a life in which they feel better off dead than alive. Let’s make a change, Tumblr. Let’s pledge to stop bullying. It’s time to make a change.
(Source: freefromthesechains1)
While I have never received any, I have seen plenty of anon hate towards people who’s blogs are depressing, or where self harm and suicidal thoughts are posted. I have seen so many be told to “just do it already” or to “stop talking about it and do it”.
Honestly, some…
A note from a follower of Compassion Alert:
Dear everyone:I won’t start this message by saying that I know what you’re going through or I know how you feel. I’m going to start by saying, I’ve always believed that we are here for some reason of some sort, whether we never know that reason or not doesn’t really matter, trying to learn and experience all we can is what I have always believed to be a reason for our being here. I can tell you that I have asked myself what it would be like to die, what my point is here, why I can’t find why I am here. Never once have I thought to myself, I want to die. I believe there’s a big difference between not wanting to be alive and wanting to actually die. I’ve felt the first one. I’ve cut myself, I’ve drank myself to numbness, I’ve run away from the place I had my comfort zone in. I did all these things because I didn’t want to feel sad anymore, I felt as if I needed to distract my emotions. I can tell you something for sure. I felt better after I came out of the depression I was in. I felt like I wanted to live more. I can’t lie and say that the wait is easy, or quick or that you will completely forget your problems. But, believe me, that day when you step out of that dark place and the light of the world is shining on you and you feel that warmth and want to cry because you can’t remember when you felt so free of your pain and finally got to stand back up again, there is nothing worth living for more than that amazing moment right then and there where you feel as if all the darkness has gone away. So, I can tell you all that it will get better, because there are so many of us who have suffered and stood back up again and felt that freedom, that power, and we want all of you to feel that moment of happiness too. We want you guys to stick around and wait for it all to get better. If you just give up you never will have a chance to know how amazing your life could become in the future. You’ll never know how far you were able to go. So please. I’m begging all of you, put away those feelings of loss of hope, find someone to talk to. Please, do it for everyone who will witness whatever great moment is waiting in your future. If anyone needs to talk to someone, anyone and doesn’t know who, here elocinbored.tumblr.com please message me or anyone who offers help to anyone who wants it. It will get better. And there is so much living proof of that just walking around you everyday.
My friend commandeered my account and made the below post. This is what I get for leaving my laptop alone… at least it was something positive, not secrets about me or anything :O
My dear Madden, the founder of Compassion Alert, posted this as an answer to a nasty anon. Take note - you may feel like an ugly duckling, but someday you’ll be a swan. - S
If you cut yourself, if you hate yourself, if you eat, if you don’t eat. If your parents hit you, if your mom tells you you’re a piece of trash. If you got in a car crash and half your face is gone — wake up in the morning and give yourself a shot. Do it. Not for music, not for any reason other than the fact that you are alive and you were given the grace to wake up another day. So do it man. Just freaking get out there and try.“—Aaron Gillespie
just read this? please?
most of you guys don’t know me, my past, or anything at all, i’m drake though. i’m the one in with the sucker in my mouth. you see this guy right up there? hugging me from behind? yeah that’s my brother jake, jake mitchy, he’s about to turn 16. the thing is, is that he won’t be able to celebrate it with his family, friends, the people who love him, because he took his life. he was bullied, he got made fun of, he was always stressed. jake was honestly the most amazing thing in my life, yeah we had a really great brother relationship, we told each other everything, we were goofy, just like in this picture, his smile always brightened up a room, we would make fun of each other, we were best friends. still are, we laughed all the time, i’d give him rides to where ever he wanted to go, i was always there for him, we always teased each other, but the best thing is, is that he could come to me and tell me everything. he told me that he always got bullied, and people always made fun of him, and i tried my very best to calm him down and talk to him, i told him he could get through it, i told him that he was strong enough and if he ever needed anything, that’d i’d always be here, but on March 7th 2011, he couldn’t handle it anymore, that’s when he decided to end it all, and honestly it shook my world, don’t be sorry for me though, i’m ready to take charge and try to help other people who feel bullied and stressed, because i’m here for you, your friends are here for you, and whatever it is, the slightest problem, come talk to me, your family, your friends, i promise you that they will listen, and i promise you that i’m here for you, and if you ever feel like giving up, look around you, you have a whole life ahead of you, and no one should ever feel like how my brother felt. i sometimes take blame because i wish i could have been a better brother for him, i wish that i could show him that there was so much more life to what he just experienced, i wish i could have talked him out of it, because i know for a fact that i could have stopped it. but i didn’t, and now i’m taking charge to make sure that you are as happy as can be. this is what made me who i am today, this is why i tell everyone they are beautiful, this is why i try to make sure everyone is happy, this is why i try my best to talk to everyone if they are feeling down. you never know what a person is going through, so why not just be nice? or just say hi, and acknowledge them. my brother would be very proud of me. don’t be sad for me, don’t give me sympathy, just show my brother some love from you, show him that you care. that’s all he has ever wanted. i want you to try and do three nice things for someone without having to get acknowledged or attention, i want you to try. i know you may not wanna do it, or you may not feel like it, but trust me, i bet you anything you do it right now, without evening knowing it. maybe you said hey to someone today and it could have stopped them from taking their lives.
i’m not asking you to reblog this at all, but i’m just asking you to read this, and try to change someones life, because my brother changed mine, show him some love please. that’s all i’m asking for. have a great day. smile you’re beautiful.
jake, i miss you bro! i love you. you da best.
~ love drake.
