We have seen pictures, videos and posts about bullying and several of us wish to do something to end it, to stop the verbal and physical abuse or slander in order to speak up for something we believe in. We are fortunate that over the years, it has decreased greatly and there are several resources to turn to for this.

But the truth is, we have spent so many years considering ourselves to be okay because we would never harass someone. But what we may not consider bullying is hurting others anyways with our words or comments. We have sometimes been the face of this type of bullying, and other times we do it without even realizing.

Whether we realize it or not, the whispered comments about what someone is wearing. The gathering with our friends to give the other person a look, or to start laughing at them behind their back. To be in a place that you have complete right to be and still feel like you are not good enough, even if they do not actually touch you or say something to you to your face, or to put someone in that position.

We are not the ones who wanted this to happen some day. We are the ones who said we would always stand up for the ones hurt, not be the ones causing it. We are not the ones who said that bullying was wrong, and still by some backwards means manage to do it anyways.

We should not be the ones.

We have all hurt someone we know or didn't know, by some form of judgement, word, or just negativity. But what reason do we have to not like someone just because they are not in our friend group? To dislike someone because of their looks, their emotions, their status? We should strive to be the ones that break that barrier. No one said that all groups have to intermingle, but they do not have to make each others lives difficult.

This issue decreases a lot in college, but what about all of the years before? Most of us have seen "Mean Girls" and though it is an extreme form, we have to realize it is one thing to love a movie, and it is another thing to become it. Though we may not always realize, we have to support each other because at the end of the day, we cannot be each others destruction.

We are not the ones to bring each other down. We are the ones to donate to a stranger, or compliment a random person on how their hair looks like. We are the ones to hold a door open for someone, or call a friend when they are having a bad day. We are the ones that care for each other. We are only human, and though we've been on both sides of the spectrum for this, we can make the change.

This is not the time to look back at past actions where we've hurt others or past times we've been hurt but to learn and grow from it. We have so much in store for us, the things we've learned from family, friends, and life itself.

We are not the ones who will end as a generation forgotten and left in ruins.

We are so, so much more than that.