Imagine a world that only judged you by the way you look and where you come from. Now imagine the people that did that to you were students that went to the same school as you. You had to face them every school day for all of high school. The sad part is that your teachers or principle wouldn’t do something about it. Well welcome to the world of bullying, racism, and hatred amongst the humankind. Welcome to the place we call home that might or is not even ours. I can still remember the old days when a man was judged by his personality not his race, ethnicity, sexuality, or gender. So why have people changed so much, is it the movies and media that make people think that being a homosexual or another race is a bad thing. If it is that than why are we allowing them to influence us in the wrong way? Right now is the time to step up and change as many things as possible, before it is too late.
Living in the planet earth for fifteen years is long enough for a young man to become an adult and gain enough knowledge to make the right decisions. Well although I have come a long way I am still not sure about how I have faced all the obstacles that I faced. The hardest obstacle for anybody to me is bullying. Since I have been in America I don’t think I have gone two days without somebody making a comment on my race. I was born in an Afghani family and have always wanted a good education, so that brought us to the United States of America where life was suppose to be better for me and my family, but who knew that it would get worse.
I can still remember 9/11 as if it was yesterday and I am pretty sure I will remember that tragedy for the rest of my life. Not because somebody I loved died in it, but that was the turning point and the start of racism. I open my eyes to another beautiful day and ready to go to school and on the way to school it could have been the worst day of my life. As I was walking to school very happy because it was my first day of middle school a group of kids that I knew from elementary came in front of me. There were four of them. They were all at least two hundred pounds or more. At first I thought they were just going to go past me. Then all of a sudden one of them trips me and a fall face first onto the pavement. I stayed down for a while and before you knew it they started to kick me. They kick me in every single part if my body from head to feet. I had my hands over my head trying to protect myself, but I guess that was not enough. From opening my eyes to a beautiful day I opened my eyes to sight of horror. Lost and very confused I tried moving but I couldn’t move any part of my body.
I toke a glance around me to see and ask for help, but nobody there to rescue me from the terror of bullying. I looked again and I saw an adult that kind of looked like a teacher. I screamed “help, help, help me please”, but in a fast response she replied “fuck you, you Afghani fuck! You deserve everything that is happening to you, because of you my son had to go to war.” The thought of somebody helping me had died and now I have noticed that nobody was going to help me. The guys were finally done and leaving me in pain. They walked away I to myself I thought that it was all over I at least didn’t die, but it wasn’t over. One of the guys turned back around and spit on me and suddenly I woke up. I heard “Samir, Samir, wake up baby. We are almost in America.” Feeling very excited that it was just a dream; I picked up a pencil and wrote about it.
The nightmare that I had is now happening to homosexuals. They are getting bullied and picked on just because they like the same sex which is just wrong. I never thought my nightmare would turn into reality, but it did. In this world everybody is selfish, but the real question is how far they are going to take it. Everybody needs to take a minute and think that it just doesn’t matter what you think it matters what everybody thinks. If a guy wants to like another guy than let it be instead of making life miserable for them.
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