A Short Feelings Rant

Author's Note: This is something I threw together in response to something that happened in my class today. Its not my best writing so feel free to skip over it.

Today in LA we watched a powerful video called To This Day. I connect with this video so much as it really just shows me there are people out there that feel the same as me. I’ve put a few lines below that are totally true.

“that rhyme about sticks and stones

as if broken bones

hurt more than the names we got called

so we grew up believing no one

would ever fall in love with us

that we’d be lonely forever

but the school halls were a battleground

where we found ourselves outnumbered day after wretched day

he tried to kill himself in grade ten

when a kid who still had his mom and dad

had the audacity to tell him “get over it”"

So my LA teacher before showing this video to us told us it might make us sad and that the more touchy people might cry. And at the of the video the kid across from me has the audacity to say.

“That wasn’t so bad. I’m not crying or anything.”

Now I’m a strong person who doesn’t cry in public so I didn’t cry either. But every single time I see this video I get so close to crying. Because this video is so powerful and so completely true. Perhaps the rude child in my LA class has never experienced what this video speaks about. And perhaps they have turned a blind eye to everyone who has. But there are people who may be sitting right across from them at this moment who see themselves in this video. And that comment could be what makes them cry, more so than even the emotional, powerful video. Because of people like you, person-across-from-me. Because To This Day there are people like that out there. To This Day we hide and hope that no one will see how badly we hurt so no one like you will mock us and tell us to “get over it”.