A video that moved me - To This Day

This video was shown to me by one of my best friends, it is one powerful video. I could relate cuz I was there at some point.

To anyone who needed to hear it: THEY WERE WRONG. You are beautiful. You have the potential to be amazing, to change lives. You matter. You are important.

I am a massive fan of Doctor Who, and this quote probably saved my life.

"Nine hundred years of time and space, I've never met anyone who wasn't important."

It took me a long time to realise how true that was. And to this day, I tell myself this in the mirror every day before school.

Bullying ruins lives, you may not see how bad it gets. But is fun at the expense of others is worth making a child fear for their life, fear coming to school, affecting their studies and making their grades plunge and making them feel stupid?

Is it worth making a girl feel ugly and unloved? That because she isn't skin and bones or doesn't have a thigh gap, that she is fat? Is it worth making her starve herself for your sick idea of perfection? That she fears food?

Is it worth making the lonely quiet kid cut himself? Or burn himself? Or hit himself? To punish himself for a failing you have put on him? So every day he wears long sleeve shirts and jeans so no one can see that he hurts himself to make the pain inside go away. Pain you bullies have caused.

Is it worth making the troubled kid suicidal? Taunting her to "Go ahead, kill yourself." and saying "No one will miss you, we'll be better off.". And one day her best friend cleans her locker out,  crying as she glares at you saying "You did this to her."

"You ruined a family. A mother and father grieve as they bury their child. A brother or sister go into depression as the see their older sister's lifeless body in that coffin. How does it feel to be the reason someone is dead in this world?"

Bullying does so much more than you think. So stop. Leave the weird, quiet kid alone. Live your own life, stop making someone else's a living hell cuz yours isn't satisfactory or fulfilling.

And to kids who are bullied, speak up. It's easier said than done, but please. TELL someone. You have the potential for so much, don't let something like bullies keep you from it.

Remember, they were wrong.

You aren't fat.
You aren't stupid.
You aren't a failure.
You aren't a loser.
You aren't useless.

You matter.
You are important.
You are unique.
You are worth it.
You are you. The only you that will ever exist.
You have potential to change lives in some way.
You have a future worth sticking around for.
You deserve to live no less than anyone else.

Remember, it's ok not to be perfect. They were wrong.

If you can't see anything beautiful about yourself,
Get a better mirror.
Look a little closer.
Stare a little longer.
Because there's something inside you that made you keep trying even when everyone told you to quit.