Does society have an age limit as to what it victimizes?

This was a post I wrote for my other blog. Since that one isn't active, and this one is one of my best writings, I'm reposting it here. I posted this on (20-11-2011).

Don't ask how I will start this, or what exactly this -blog- will be about. Just several viewpoints of the world, starting from one most ignored subject, suicide. I was browsing through my facebook page when I saw one of the newsfeeds, and it says '10 year old possible suicide victims'. I personally find self-harming/bullying/depression an act of violence from society towards an individual, so I was outraged by this news.

http://yhoo.it/v3Cg8V ; this is the link to the article if you want to know how outraged I was.

Here I start. In fact, I don't know how to start, the fact on how much disgusted I am to society, or the fact that suicide is not the only answer.

If you've read from my other blog, you'd know my experiences, and I think I mentioned the Golden Gate Bridge documentary, if not then, it's a documentary implying the people that commits suicide there annually.

Well here's the thing, one of the worst enemies of society is bullying (my definition; the act of negatively criticising others without any basic knowledge/relationship about the person), in fact it's probably the worst enemy of society. Like the 2010 incident of 5 or 6 gays committed suicide because of cyber bullying. It hurts you know, to hear these news, it really does. I mean how, do you think, how can people do such things? are they not sane enough to think of the consequences?

Generally, when people hear the word 'abuse' they'll think of physical; hit, smack, kick, punch, you name it. Yes it's painful. Yes it's torturous. Yes it's inappropriate. Yes it is so out of the blue that it should be stopped! no shit right? But let me enlighten another perspective, if physical abuse is the majority knowledge, does that mean there are no other types of abuses? Emotional abuse, this is THE one abuse that I think hurts more. Everyone's been there right? family pressure, peer pressure. they affect your moods, psychological effect on yourself and towards others.

Have you ever thought, after one incident, or an argument you feel like killing that other person just because they don't agree with you? This is not abuse, but it relates, this is you defending your stand-point. You arguing on what you think is right. Now, emotional abuse is when, you're the topic of argument, but this time without a positive view, someone confronting you with your flaws, insulting you, irritating you. This is emotional abuse, or as we know it; bullying.

People usually wonder, or should I say 'Friends' usually wonder, why I defend someone who's not social being bullied by my own 'friends' they don't understand, sadly, the correlation between abuse and self-harming. These are obvious victims, while mostly we've heard that victims of self-harming are people that 'always smiles, is joyful and easy-going'. Life is not as easy as ABC. So you still ask, why I defend them? I love them. Love in the context of being faithful to humanity, to the world we are in.

Let's just get to the point, suicide. When we hear news about suicide, most of us goes like 'he's stupid for doing that.' or 'It's wrong to commit suicide'. YES, it IS wrong, YES it IS stupid, but then again, why don't we ask 'WHY did he do that?' No? never thought of it? okay. Fine, that's how the world is, maybe I can't change everyone's views, but nothing can stop me, nor can't I enlighten people with the different perspectives. At least, to see that suicide is not fully self-inflicted damage. See the news article for example, she was still 10 for god's sake. TEN-effing-YEARS-OLD! she was called 'fat, ugly, slut' she DIDN'T even know what 'slut' meant, she HAD to endure all of that, ALL of that, and decided to end her life? I got some feedbacks saying she was 10, she didn't understand it. Oh trust me, I understood more than suicide at that age. more than that.

So why? Like I said, emotional abuse, not everyone can cope with the toughness of the reality. Not everyone. The image of 'the act of ending one's life' is a low-classed humanity right? what does that make of the criminals? the bullies? higher than them? no.

So here's the thing, suicide, on a certain extent, is not at all one's act of self-inflicting harm. Its, in fact, society's act towards an individual which has a weak defense against him/her-self. They're afterall, victims of society, victims of abuse. Abuse which has no competition, manipulation of the emotion and mind.