A Little Bit About Violence

Hello! Welcome to this blog! Can you guess the topic for today’s text? It’s pretty obvious from the title, but today’s topic is violence! Not a light topic, and I bet you’ve ever heard about it. Violence, according to Wikipedia, is a behavior involving physical force intended to hurt, damage, or kill someone or something. What does that mean? It’s a bad thing. It involves another person hurting. And it doesn’t help in contributing to make this world a better place. There are many types of violence, such as physical, sexual, psychological, and neglect.

 

Where does this violence thing occur? Why does it occur? How does it occur? When? Who? For the who part, the answer is, anyone. Sure, anyone could do violence. It’s at the tip of their hands, at the tip of their tongues, the tip of their minds, and you can do it by just simply wanting to. But as humane humans, we have to act humanly, and have at least some peace in our hearts, and refrain from doing hurtful acts towards others. It’s become our job to love, it’s become our job to care, and it’s been our job to help each other out of our own hells. Not everyone should do it, but anyone could do it. 

 

Where? Where does violence happen? Some of us may not see violence directly, but some of us do. Maybe by seeing it happen, or experiencing it, or maybe heard of some cases by an acquaintance. It could happen anywhere, really. At the streets, at someone’s home, at school, at a restaurant, at a movie theatre, at church, it could be anywhere. Even in a cave. Again, it’s at the edge of your being, and it takes just wanting to do it in order for you to make it happen. The most holy person could do it; you never know. This could lean back to ‘Who’, but it is connected to ‘Who’, since it really depends on the person. And it’s important to know and control our emotions, wherever we are. 

 

Why does it happen? Simply put, violence occurs because of one’s anger, fear, and other negative emotions overflowing into an uncontrollable spiral. As invalidating as that sounds, it’s true. It could be someone’s way to express their anger, but does it really have to inflict pain and hurt to others? Go punch a sand sack or something. Doesn’t mean people should coop their emotions up themselves, but find some healthier ways to cope with those emotions. Now, how does it happen? It could be by hand, by foot, by head, by a hand holding a weapon, ignoring someone, belittling someone, and many more methods. Just a swing of a body part, and there you have it. An insensitive joke, it could be counted as violence. Touching untouchable areas, yeah, that’s definitely violence. So, be careful what you do. Wouldn’t want to be a violent person now, would we?

 

Back to the ‘Who’. We’ve covered the who could inflict violence. But one thing we haven’t covered yet, is the ‘Who’ that are victims to violence. The statistics say that 1 out of 3 women, and 1 out of 4 men have experienced violence from an intimate partner. 1 in 7 children have experienced neglect in the past year in the United States. 1 out of 5 students are bullied in high schools, and many other cases. These are the things we need to be more conscious of. Someone we know may be suffering from these acts, and we could have no idea about it. It’s important for us to always make sure to be considerate. We never know what people are going through, so please be nice to everyone. 

 

Nobody deserves to live in fear. It should be a right, to be free from any type of violence. To be free from the chains of pain inflicted by others. To not worry about being belittled, about being less than. No one deserves that. 

So, to those of you who feel bad for not contributing by doing nothing, be happy! Doing nothing is literally helping, but be sure do the most that you can! That’s it from this blog. Be sure to keep fighting, and hope for the best. Thank you!

 

Written by Joanne Christina