Stumbled up on "The Act of Bullying" recently, and I'm not quite sure what to make of it. A superficial glance makes the column seem like a rather mundane effort to draw attention to the act of bullying. Something we're all well familiar with, methinks.

However, a less perfunctory reading of the aforementioned piece, particularly an account of the author's own experiences of being bullied lends some tangibility to the severity of the issue at hand. It seems almost incredible that a child should be subject to such abuse.

The author's credibility aside (I was born a skeptic), the increasing incidence of violence in schools worldwide deserves a second thought, at the very least. Violence only begets violence, which begets further violence, and so on. The children of today are the ones we, or at least, I entrust the task of realizing my hopes and dreams for tomorrow.

But all will be lost if we rob them of their desire to live.