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Graduation Speech: Are You Afraid?

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“Are you afraid?
Afraid to come to school?
Do you hate your school because someone makes your life miserable there?
Has someone made you feel so insecure about your appearance that you want to hide away in some corner?
I’m sure each person in this room has been a victim of some form of bullying at least once in their lives. Whether it was somebody calling you ugly or spreading rumours about you or having had your locker trashed or being beaten up, each of these is a form of bullying.

Some of you may already know me in bad light and I’m not here to redeem that or change your opinion of me. I was just 22 and yes, I fell in love with my boss. But unluckily for me, he happened to be the President of the United States and that’s why I had to face the millions of comments against me. I know what it is to be bullied, especially on such a vast platform as that of the Cyber world. So, when my good friend, your Dean asked me to give a speech on Anti- bullying due to the big number of such cases coming up at your …show more content…

While for some kids, the group you so popularly call as the jocks and cheerleaders, it’s a piece of cake. But for those of you are different, you are immediately termed as a ‘looser’ and become an …show more content…

It may be to gain popularity or because of jealously or because they like the feeling of power they feel when they pick on someone. If you are one of those, think how you would feel if someone bullied you. Would you still feel so secure if people told ‘you are worthless’ or ‘you are ugly’? Would you want to come to school everyday knowing that you will find your locker trashed and be pushed around? Put yourself in their feet. And most of all, Could you live with it if one day the person you have been bullying for months committed suicide because they could not bear it

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