The Bullied and Beautiful

Shane Koyczan’s passionate speech, “To This Day…for the Bullied and Beautiful”, is about the lasting battleground known as school. We always let others define who we are and what we can be. Adults will tell us we can’t be what we want to be and our peers will tell us that we are fat and ugly and weird. Follow your dreams no matter what people tell you, no matter how people define you. To get past these people you must stand up for yourself. But standing up for ourselves poses quite the challenge, because the honest truth is that names do hurt and those people do define us. Those words and bullies do make an impact on us. The truth is those things prevent us from following our dreams.The plague of bulling is a crucial issue in today’s society.  Kids like this don’t realized they are loved, and they go through hell twice a day. Bulling carries an influence far longer than just that day, it can last weeks or years or a lifetime. In order to survive attacks of verbal abuse you must believe that they are wrong. This way those dreams can come true. To many this is the most powerful weapon, and there is not much we can do about it. Shane Koyczan gives an emotionally prevailing performance about some of these bullied and beautiful in the point of view of one of them. Accompanied by violin and stellar graphics he stresses, through poetry, that sticks and stones can break bones but words can break hearts. However, you can’t go through life afraid of having your heart broken, and we should try not to break others’ hearts. For, you are far more than the names that you are called, so be an example for all those bullied and beautiful.