RE: MAKING THE BUS MONITOR CRY

When I watched this video, I felt really sad, embarrassed, terrible, and disgust. I found nothing, absolutely NOTHING positive about this. I can't even stand watching the entire video, and I was impressed by how strong Karen was for not yelling, kicking, or calling names to these kids.

Personally, I know what it feels like to be bullied. I was obese as a kid, and it's not because of some silly reasons. Since then some seniors and even younger boys called me Gorilla, Giant, and stuffs. One of the kids even said "don't ever run on this place, you'll make an earthquake and destroy us all." Yeah of course it's funny, for them. But noooo, not for me, my dear. I didn't find it funny at all. Do they even know why I was obese, and how it feels like to be called gorilla? noooo they didn't know how it feels like to be considered as 'nothing special' to the society. 

So that's my story. When I saw this video, I was once again impressed by how strong Karen was. If I was her I'd probably lose my self-control and I wouldn't survive in such environment. But well, she didn't have to yell at them or so. This video has became the internet sensation and therefore, these kids have to carry their embarrassment for the rest of their lives now. Everyone from around the world could watch the video and have information about the kids' names, adress, telephone numbers, email adress and stuffs. That's really tough, but of course it's their consequences. Sure they're only teenagers but they are NOT toddlers, meaning that they know how to behave. As teenagers they have responsibilities, one of them is to keep a good reputation of their family and themselves. Well... this is a lesson about karma. 

This video reflects the shameful fact of today's teenagers. No wonder elders often called us rebellious, impolite, etc. Some of us don't have any respect at all because we all we think about is "YOLO" and we are still young so that we have some reasons to do all the fun, including the fun of harassing others, even the elders. It's sure is fun to hide our weaknesses and expose someone else's instead. Sure, it's cool and awesome to laugh at someone. 

Why do we have to respect elders? It's because they are the ones who raised us, feed us, educate us, take care of us. What would we be without them? No matter how bad some of them are, we will not be here without them. Bullying them means we are not being grateful to whatever they did to make us develop. 

There's nothing great about bullying people, no matter who they are. Things that seemed simple to us may be offensive to others. I once bullied some younger kids when I was graduating elementary school just because of something frivolous they did, and I am so ashamed of myself for being bitchy. It's not a public case and thankfully I am now friends with my 'victims', but I am still ashamed, and all I can think about is guilt each time I remember my deed. Since this case have been a public sensation, they'll get bigger consequences, and I can't imagine how painful it would be, and it's completely nothing compared to what I feel.

Also, one thing I noticed from this video is that there wasn't a single person who tries to stop these kids from harassing Karen. A lesson I got from here and some other similar cases I've read is that people don't want to get hurt so most of them choose to protect themselves and ignore what's happening to others. They were so afraid of being bullied back, OR they didn't want to get involved because it's troublesome, OR they didn't care at all. I'm sorry for using 'they', it's not that I judge these people but I'm just saying the common fact.

Well, since I'm also a teenager like these kids, I want to apologize to all of you for being embarrassing and rude. I am so sorry for whatever trashy things teenagers do to the society. I feel really, really bad to see this truth.

Thankfully, we still have hope in humanity. Southeast Airlines offers her a free flight and stay at Disneyland with 9 of her friends (and of course this is a dream for everybody :D)! There is a donation to help Karen go on vacation and retire because she deserves to have some unforgettable fun after all the trash she gets. You can help here:  http://www.indiegogo.com/loveforkarenhklein :)

Well this is what I need to say. I hope nothing like this would happen in the future. And I hope all teenagers who knew about this will change, or keep their attitude to keep the good name of our generation.