Standing Up For What You Believe In Pays Off

Wrote this a long time ago when my friends Hunter and Justin were planning on making a book:


Never let people bother you. Never let them hurt you emotionally. Don't let them make fun of you because of your physical traits, religion, likes, or you dislikes. If you let them keep botherinng you it will only get worse.When I began highschool, there were a few people who would pick on me for things I believed in and things I had interests in. I had people making fun of me for religious beliefs and my extreme like of Clay Aiken. Yes, I do have people who still do, but it's not as bad. I had girls picking on my size. Which was unusual for me because I'm very thin. I had girls calling me anorexic and that would really get on my nerves. But I kept going onHannah was one of the many girls who would make fun of me because I was so thin. They would spread rumours about me being anorexic (all of which were untrue) and such like that. Hannah was in my gym class, which made matters much worse. Changing out in gym became the worst part of my day. I would change my shirt and giggles and whispers would start up. Hannah was also in my English class after gym. She didn't only make fun of my size but would also make fun my friend Allen's girlfriend. They called her a lesbian and I would hate it because she was like a sister to me. Hannah would also ask me for things like paper, pencils, and pens. Being the nice person that I am, I would let her borrow them. But on day she went to far. In gym, she was making fun of me because of my size, once more. She said, O look it's the little anorexic girl. I just screamed back that I wasn't anorexic and the she was just jealous because she was short and fat. The whole locker room went quiet. Then, we were doing basketball drills and she said that she didn't want to. Allen told her that she should sit out if she didn't want to do drills. She just started cussing at him and said stuff like 'Why don't you go to your lesbian girlfriend?' and 'She's so ugly she makes gorillas look beautiful'. I just yelled at her 'Why don't you just shut up shorty.' and the Coach came over and said 'What is the problem here?' Well Hannah puts on her innocent face and says 'These two were cussing and making fun of me.' pointing at Allen and me. I just looked at him and said 'She was making fun of my two best friends and calling his girlfriend a lesbian. And she was cussing not us!' He just looked at her and she said she did NOT cuss and scoffed and walked away. To top off my day, she asked me for paper English. I looked at her in amazement and said 'You are mean to me, you insult my friends, and you expect me to be nice to you?'. She just cussed at me and I said in a mocking voice 'I thought YOU didn't cuss!'. She just growled and never talked to me again.My Clay Aiken fanaticism has been made fun of forever. I can't help liking him. He's got a wonderful voice and good priorites. He's just an all around good Christian person. I have been to 5 concerts and they were all wonderful. I have 15 shirts. Every time I wear them, some sort of comment comes along. They would try to convince me he was a homosexual, but I knew and believed that he wasn't. I stood up for him and people would keep going on and on. They would call him flamer and pervert and it bothered the Hell out of me. One time I just said 'Would God like seeing you make fun of a Christian girl who idolizes a great Christian man?' and they just frowned and the kidding from then on ceased. I do still get a few but, I know that I shouldn't let other opinions change what i think is right.I had this one boy, Brad, who would pick on my because I was Catholic. Every day, he would call the 'Catholosism Freak' and 'The Catholic Girl' and such like that. I hated it. After a while I just got fed up with it and I told him not to make fun of me because of MY love for Jesus and MY belief in Him. He apologized and is now one of my best friends.So even just a tiny thing can change your view on things. The smallest kid can change you. DON'T let that happen if you really believe in that. If you think that what you believe in or who you idolize is good in God's eyes, you go right on ahead and believe.