How is standing up for someone being weak? That's one of the strongest things that anyone can do in my opinion. It doesn't take courage to hurt someone or to wallow in sadness. How many times during your school years did you see someone stand up for another while they were being belitted or about to be assaulted? That's being strong.

You're taking too much credit for an act of kindness. I never called you weak. I never said what you're doing is weak. I said that you're going to cause more people to fight back rather than to come to their knees and beg forgiveness. Teaching people, especially children at an early age, to be strong, ignore the negative opinions and not bully back when they're bullied is going to be much more successful. You speak to me as if you think I'm trying to fight with you. I'm not. I'm doing what you seem to want to do, helping. Giving you advice. You don't have to take my advice. I'm only trying to help you. I've been bullied all my life and you know what I realized? To stop feeling sorry for myself. To not let people bring me down and cause me to not be able to live my life the way I want. I took other's negative thoughts of me way too seriously. I've been through it all. Mental, emotional, and physical abuse from people. I know what it's like. But when I learned to stop caring about what the people I don't care about think, my life got 100% better. I stopped trying to find people to feel sorry for me and started actually living. I suffer from severe depression and anxiety. But I've been pulling through. "Sometimes life put's you in difficult circumstances that you did not choose. But being happy, or unhappy is a choice you make, and I've chosen to make the best out of things that I can." Depression is a lack of certain chemicals in the brain. Usually caused by lack of exercise and vitamins. Some are just born with it. It can never be cured and we all have a little of it. Usually, those "bullies" actually tend to have a lot of it. And they may not realize it, but for some bullies, making others feel their pain helps them feel better. I'm sure you've heard that one before. They don't know better because they usually weren't raised knowing right from wrong. It's a lack of maturity. Maturity is harder to change than depression. Maturity typically comes with age. Depression can be helped through therapy. Therapy that is meant to make depressed people [b]stronger[b] I don't want to get personal on a forum, but usually the people that go on random forums preaching about bullying, are those who have been affected by it either directly, or indirectly. Therefore, you most likely have been pushed around, you want it to stop, whether it's you personally being bullied, or someone close to you, you want it to stop, and the only way you know how is by telling the "bullies" to stop on a public forum. I could be wrong, but that's my best guess. If I'm right, you'll be in denial to whatever I try and tell you about strength. But I'll just say this, people, everyone in the world, needs to stop trying to perfect others and fix what's broken, when they should be focusing on perfecting themselves. You don't have to take my advice, but you should consider it. If you're young, and if you think you've been through a lot, then think about it. Because so have I. And I'm still barely pushing through it.

I agree with everything you just said. You have a lot of good points. I honestly would just like to make a difference in peoples hearts. Because not everyone can stand up for themselves. I've been bullied and I bullied. And for someone to stand up for me and against me is an eye opener. I couldn't care less what people have to say about me, I'm not perfect and never will be but neither are others and nor will their words and actions take from me or will they gain from it. I'm not trying to pick a fight with you. I've been trying to spread awareness for almost a year now, everywhere and anywhere. I obtained what I need to be strong for myself and others. I don't care about credit. I just want to help others, have them feel loved, have them change their ways and see what they are doing or not doing.