Last week a 14 year old boy killed himself because he was being bullied for loving. There is still bullying going on the YouTube page where he posted all his videos. Stop spreading hate. Spread love. Hate kills. 


Below is a "It Gets Better" video, which he posted to tell other gay teens that life gets better, and not to commit suicide. "It Gets Better" is an anti-suicide organization, which he was a proud spokesperson for LGBT (Lesbian, Gay,Bi-Sexual, and Transgender) teens.

This video is quite ironic. He says to hang in there, and then a few months later he was pushed to the extreme of committing suicide. Imagine how horrible the bullying must have been to have to be pushed to the thing which you are strongly against. If you look on the comments section under his videos, you'll read disgusting hate letters, from homophobic   people saying what an abomination he is, and how disgusting he is-- some even call him the f word. It's people like them that caused a young boy, fourteen years old, to pull the trigger and end his own life. What a waste of what would have been a perfectly normal life. He would have graduated high school and gone to college, where people are more mature and can see past their fears and differences and accept those who weren't accepted at a younger age. He would have moved on to find a boyfriend, and he would have been happy in a committed relationship, and might have even been able to adopt a child. 


It's hate that ruins this world. If we all learned to be more tolerant the world would be a better place and teenagers wouldn't be bullied to death by insecure homophobic people-- if you can even call them people. People have hearts, and I'm not sure the bullies on his webpage have. 


This is such a shame on all of society's reputation. How will we be able to go on from this and improve our world when we have heartless bullies tormenting people when all they wanted to do was love. Let me leave you all with a video of his, where he is happy, dancing with his many friends. This video shows how he was still a kid, and deserved to be able to behave like a kid-- not having to be worried about being insulted and ridiculed throughout his daily life. What's worse is that he is not the first to have killed themselves. Hopefully he is the last. An ideal world is a place where we can all be tolerant to one another and not ever have another incident like this.

Something that continues to blow my mind. Every. Single. Day.

We may never see eye to eye, colorwise. We might be seeing entirely different colors. If my whole life I learned the color red is what to you is green, I'd still call it red and you'd call it red, and there is no way to describe which color is which. You can't just say "it's the color of a rose", because you might see green roses.

How do I describe a color?

Just another awesome street art scene painted by my favorite street artist, Banksy.

Please watch this video.

This is one of the most inspiring videos I've ever watched. A young motorcyclist gets trapped under a burning car, when witnesses intervene to save him. Despite the fact that there's fire and that they might get hurt, they all put aside their concerns and help push the car. As a young women then looks underneath the car and points out he's still breathing, more people rush to his aid and eventually the drag him out from underneath. He is in an ICU (Intensive Care Unit) and is recovering-- with minor injuries compared to what he would have had if they ignored the situation. He might have died, and for one outstanding moment, people got together and saved his life. I couldn't help but smile as I watched more and more people rush to the scene to help. Turns out that the world isn't so bad.

Today at school we joked and had as much fun and learning as we usually do, but today was an especially good day for me. Today after school was Band Practice, and I got a dose of music and awesomeness. It was an uplifting experience, and made my day special. Hope your day was as special as mine.

Good Night,
Eden

MODEL CONGRESS TRYOUTS TOMORROW AND THURSDAY IN MR. BUCKLEY'S ROOM!!!

September 12th, 2011

Sigh. Another year of school. This year we are not freshmen but we are sophomores. We are high class Shalhevet students who are respected as well as admired. (Not to say that the freshmen aren't). Now we are faced with more pressure to do well, and to exceed in co-curriculars. Which co-curriculars should you take? Who should you hang out with? How will you balance friends, home, AND school?
DON'T WORRY. YOU'LL BE FINE! Just be a bit cautious, and I'm sure you'll accomplish everything you want to. Hurrah for a great year.
Sooo. What to talk about? Nothing big has happened yet this year, but I'll keep you posted.
Questions? Concerns? Comments? Let me know!
-Eden