The long term effects of bullying.

This quote shows the effects of long term bullying because when you affect someone's life, you don’t always realize it, when you don’t realize it you keep pushing and doing what you’re doing. While you’re making fun of someone and that person acts like it doesn't bother them, the bully is going to think that it doesn't bother you and keep doing it. In the book, Hannah was being bullied through rumors, she didn't tell anyone that they were bothering her or that they weren't true so the people making the rumors kept going. The long term effect of those rumors and the repercussions of those rumors was the suicide of Hannah Baker. The people making those rumors had no idea that they had that much of an effect on Hannah. Another example is my life experiences, I have been bullied throughout my life and the words of others have had an effect on me as a person, I've stayed home from school because I knew what was waiting for me when the day would begin. I knew all of the backhanded comments would be there when I walked through the halls, when I sat down for class or lunch... I knew that because of one rumor I would be the laughing stock of the entire class, I know that there will always be bullies no matter what but when people that I didn't know would attack me with words that harmed me personally, that had a major effect on my life. In my opinion the long term effects of bullying never go away, no matter how hard you try. Bullying has always been a sensitive topic for me because I go through it almost everyday, its hard to talk to anybody, its hard to be happy. Bullying makes it hard to be yourself. My bullies didn't and still don’t know how much of an impact they have on my life, and the lives of others, they keep pushing, not because I’m afraid to tell them to stop but because I know that it won’t help. People enjoy hurting others, its almost like a game for them, they find it challenging to tear a person down. Bullies are everywhere, they just don’t know how much of an impact they have on the lives of others, they don’t realize that they have this person practically wrapped around their finger, so the keep pushing until they get a reaction out of them... or they keep pushing until its too late.