Bullying, should be a crime. trust me, you should read.
Hello. My name is Ryan Mackeigan, and i am going to share with you a story about an underdog- someone who everyone made fun of, some who never got invited to parties, and who was so lonely, she left lost. This girl has wild, wiry hair that never looked as if it was combed. She wasn't like the other kids at school. She would rather write poems and make up songs than hang out and talk about bous. She ached to havefriedns, but wasn't interested in the same things as her peers. They thought she was weird. The disliked the way she dressed. They didn't understand why she was different, and they chose not to try. Rather than opening their hearts to this strange, beautiful bird, she was cast of from the flock. She didn't fit in. As the years passed and the rejection was endured in school became buried in a secret place in her memory, she discovered she has a girl for turning those songs she used to hear inside her head into music that reached people's souls. Millions of poeple. That misfit who everyone picked on, who was the butt of every josh and the target of so much cruelty, was Janis Joplin. You all know her music. It helped define a generation. Your children will listen to her, just as your parents did. And as I bet many of you do, too. Janis Joplin died in her twenties from a drug overdose. She was so full of pain and hurt that she tried to numb it with drugs. Eventually, they killed her. I'll always wonder: If the kids in her school had tried to get to know her, and instead of ridiculing and shunning her for being different, had embraced her for being special, would she still be alive today? We'll never know. But on thing we do know for sure. There are people just like Janis Joplin among us now. M<aybe that guy with the glasses who you make fun of at lunch will be the next Steven Spielberg or the next Elton John. The chubby girl with the acne who you snicker at during gym class could be the next Bette Midler. They could also end up being so damaged from loneliness, so frustrated and sad, that they go through life never being all they could have. What you should understand is that to the underdogs at this school, some of you are liike royalt. You're important. Your acceptance would mean so much. Nect time you think of laughing at someone, stop for a second and think of Janis Joplin.
Thanks for reading.
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