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Why Do We Focus So Much On Our Differences Essay

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1)"We focus so much on our differences, and that is creating, I think a lot of chaos and negativity and bullying in the world. And I think if everyone focused on what we all have in common - which is - we all want to be happy." - Ellen DeGeneres . Ellen 's quote about bullying came about due to the overwhelming increase in teen suicide in the past three years and society has not been diligent about fixing the situation. One of the major issues that has caused this increase is that as a society we are engaged with other things that are not as relevant to what is going on. Society needs to focus more on what is important if we are going to make a change in the world and ourselves. Like what Ellen had said in the quote, we focus so much on our differences when we need to be focusing on the fact that all we really want is to be happy. No one should ever feel as if they cannot live their life in a way that will truly allow them to be happy simply because they are "different" from someone else. …show more content…

Well, because life is fast stride and the parents have to work and when the kids do speak up no one is there to hear because one, they work late or they are just too tired to even listen and just want to go to sleep. Most parents have just had a bad day that they just don 't want to hear about it. Another reason that is highly common is that the kid just doesn 't want to talk about it because they are fearful or just hold it in hoping it will all just go away. Kids think like that because they may feel like they don 't have the affection and backing that they need to have the courage to speak up and ask for help. When a kid does try to ask for help most people don 't even try to help the situation because they might think the kid did something to bring it upon themselves for this to

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