Bullying In Animals

Picture a vast savannah in which a mighty beast resides. The lion. He lay with his cubs. All of a sudden a fight breaks out. The cubs have woken and they're hungry. The biggest cub is up and he’s looking for food. The smallest cub has the only meat around and he isn't sharing. The biggest cub asserts his dominance and takes the meat for himself.

That was an example of how nature treats bullying in the wild, it's natural, it happens all the time, do animals complain? No, they try to survive instead, they learn to deal with that abuse from other animals. I think that we should take a page out of the animal kingdom's book and use bullying as a lesson to better ourselves as people. How do most animals deal with bullying? They fight back, they protect themselves, who else is going to?

So what is bullying? Well I think it is a potentially damaging set of actions that can ruin ones otherwise “perfect” life. The definition of bullying has broadened and broadened as people evolve, I think that the definition of bullying has been broadened far too much in the society we live in today. For example you're in a board meeting and there's one person who has stood up, started shouting about what they think is best for the company etc. Started using rude body language and is just generally being
aggressive. Now what do you think that person is doing to the weaker members in the meeting, he's bullying them right? Or, is he just being passionate about an idea he's had? Just trying to be helpful for the company he works for? Studies show that people get confused between anger and passion.

Before I go on, let's address the fact that the majority of people in the society that we live in today would argue against my point of view that bullying is a helpful existence.
Society today programs you to think that bullying is unacceptable, that you should not tolerate any negative behaviour. Imagine a coach is yelling you from the top of their lungs telling you to drop and give them twenty push-ups for what you think is nothing. Do you complain? No, you do as you're told and push through the challenge your coach set for you and at the end of the day who's winning? You are. You became stronger not the coach. That coach that could've been perceived as a bully enabled you to be
better.

Nature's way of dealing with bullies, how people can be perceived as bullies and how we can better ourselves with the help of bullies. These are a few of the countless things I “prepared” for this speech. If there's anything I want you to take away from this speech is that, Bullying is natural and it will never go away, you are in control of bullies, just because someone shouts at you it doesn't mean they are bullying you and finally, bullies are helpful people.