Bulling, A Cataclysmic Killer

Pictures a little extreme, isn't it? 

Bulling, A Cataclysmic Killer, the title sounds like it's been plucked straight of a sci-fy horror. The problem is, it's very real and very true. Bullying doesn't just bruise a few egos, rattle self-esteem, it kills.

Growing up I was a bullied kid on the playground. It left the playground and followed me into high school. There were times I wanted to drop out , times when I was so angry, frustrated and tired of being the ass end of jokes, rumours and often slander I thought of getting violent. Lucky for me, I had several outlets in the form of sports that offered friendship through team mates but not every kid is afforded the athletic team I had been. They've become walled with nobody they feel safe to talk to, there trapped.

The irony of bullying is it isn't a plague of childhood and adolesence it follows into the world of adults. The only difference? adults dress  it  up with fancy names like harrasment, character deframation and abuse. It's all the same thing no matter how you want to lable it.

So I've spilled out a jumble of text about bullying and it doesn't seem to corralate with the title of this post, here is why bullying is a cataclysmic killer. Everything has a catalyst element to set it into motion.  The more a trapped individual is pushed, sooner or later their going to snap. Some become self-destructive turning to booze and drugs to numb their feelings, some of them will end up cold as ice on a coroners slab because of an over dose. Like my picture in the corner, some people turn to self-harm and one day they cut to deep. There found bled out on the floor by their mother, sister, brother, wife, husband or lover. There is always the bullied individual that resorts to vengence murdering their abusers, some seek venegence and attention and create mascares and the world is left with a tragic event like Columbine. Some bullies grow into murders and murder the kids they've bullied. For being gay, being fat, being black, being white, being hispanic, latino or asian. Kill them for stealing a girlfriend. Some just turn into serial murders. All that death and it doesn't stop their. The families of everyone not have to deal with losses weather to death or a loved one turning murder.

Now don't get me wrong, I'm not claiming to be some high and mighty super human incapable of being a jerk. I am a self-proclaimed bastard. Because I've stood by and watched those around me get bullied in the past, walked by the lone kid in the cafeteria. That is something I promised myself to stop when I turned 18 and stand up for the victims, reach out to those who've been hurting and to never be a bully to anyone. Cause it's gotta stop.

What about you, were you bullied, have you been bullied? I'd love to hear about it. Leave it in the comments if you want.
After reaidng this would you turn away from being a bully and start reaching out the broken hearted and standing up for the victems?

-Hutch

Let's make a difference

I used to take everything for granted, pretty near anyways. I took my shoes, pants, shirts, books, sports equipment, toys, outings and technology for granted. I could easily blame some of that on youth. It's not like kids really under the value of physical items or a true doller, I won't though. I know I never truly figured out the value of things until I found myself unemployed at the age of nineteen. I caught a break going to school offered up my parents home free of charge, food really wasn't an expense. However everything beyond that became my responsibility, welcome to the real world kid!


I took my job in the mill for granted, granted I loved my job and always performed at my peak but when graduation rolled around and we were rotated out of the work roster, Let's just say finding another source of employment has proven to be very hard, I'm still unemployed. No longer bank rolling a modest steady source of income things were definitely different. I no longer had the luxury of buying a new pair of shoes every six months, a new hat every couple of months, a couple pairs of jeans every quarter. Thankfully I'd never had a huge addiction to video games because new ones were out of the question and trips to the ski hill became the equivalent to buying a diamond engagement ring...not that I've every bought one. These things were not so bad until the winter of 2009 came around and I found myself without a winter jacket and trying to make due with spring windbreaker, it didn't do much in the way of breaking wind however. I caught a break that winter putting together a few edits for cash. I bought a decent jacket at 60% of from the season before, just in time for the worst of winter. Once college came around every cent from my tax returns became book fees, college fees with a little left of some small christmas gifts and snowboarding became a fantasy, it still is and it tears me up listening to friends talk about there trips and all I can say about my weekends were I watched a Clint Eastwood marathon on AMC and went job hunting.


Even though I was dealt a pretty mean hand in the last few years and I'm still rotating between 1 pair of Jeans and 2 sets of tracksuit pants, my impact was cushioned by things afforded to me by others. Etnies stepped up with a couple pairs of shoes and sent a new hat, Sanbon Pro Apparel, Free2Ride Action Apparel and Omega Attire hooked up a few t-shirts while M(t)theory sent out a shirt. Even though they were sent out because of a few video edits I'd worked on or some level of promotion I set up for them. Those were things that really lifted my spirits.


I sit back and I think about what I've dealt with, what I'm dealing with and realize I have so much compared to a lot of people. There are children in North America going to school on empty stomachs, children all over the globe going to school without so much as a pencil, There are children who will never see a christmas gift this year. There are people who are starving all over the world and those who don't have coats during the winter and some who have no sweaters. There are those walking around barefoot while a lot of the world are disappointed over their new shoes being ReeBok and not Gucci.


Alone, I can't do much but together we can do a heck of a lot. See that little green and red box. It's from Operation Christmas Child. It's a box you fill for a boy or a girl with small toys, socks, tooth brushes and even small shoes so somewhere a kid'll have something this christmas. I've been doing it for years now and it's really fun to put them together and you feel ten feet tall when it's finished and ready to be shipped. There are currently 300 followers on my twitter even if half of them do a box, 150 kids will get one.


I'll sweeten the pot....anybody who fills a box in November and takes a picture of the open box & Themselves and leaves a comment on this blog will be entered in a draw to win a very special limited addiction Affliction Films shirt.


Official Box Count
2 - from 1 Twitter Follower (Who just reads the Blog)


Make The Difference, Because somewhere in your life, your going to need help to.
Link to Operation Christmas Child
Canada
http://www.samaritanspurse.ca/occ/


Australia 
http://samaritanspurse.com.au/


They have them in a bunch countries do some google

The first official HUTCH blog

I've had several blogs to my name; this will be the first thats all about me. It'll be about the things I like or even what I hate. I'll throw in parts about my days, weeks, years and anything else I feel the need to express, vent or burdan readers with. 


I'm an avid lover of music, always on the prowl to discover artists I've never heard before or ones that are on the end of being undiscovered. A facet I'll borrow from my other blog is my featured music one singer or band per month and If I'm lucky I'll even wrangle in some interviews with them.  


Videos....your right I'm going to include some videos tech reviews, product reviews and maybe even somethings that are funny. Snowboarding, Skateboarding and extreme sports are a huge part of my life and I'll also be including things of that nature as well. This is something that I want to do, this is my blog but with the help of solid readers we'll make this something special.


This, This is going to be special. I'm not aiming for Perez Hilton fame but I'd love to develop a sturdy foundation of readers.
- Hutch