Words are powerful and we can either be the friend or foe of someone else with them. We can use them to build someone up as well as ourselves or knock down the person and bring ourselves down in the process.
Brave is pretty much saying that we can use words for either or not use them at all and someone suffers in silence as the result. It has powerful effects no matter which angle you see it under and probably is a reference with bullying which is such a common problem today.
What lines struck the most with me was:
"Innocence, your history of silence
Won’t do you any good
Did you think it would?"
My personal input on that is the fact that I've been a victim and all I did was stay quiet, not even to reach out to anyone while it was happening and why I fell into a depression to begin with. Therefore, people just thought I was shy and innocent and in turn took a nice advantage for it to affect the way it did and hard to be taken seriously if I finally ever were to share anything. It's about reaching out and sharing your thoughts and it can possibly save many other people's lives as well as your own let alone the mental and emotional scars and pain one has to endure.
For those who are being bullied I just have to say this - there may be a nice amount of people who are inflicting their pain (which is why many bully in the first place - they are in pain themselves) and giving their hate onto you even if you didn't do anything, but especially now that we have the advantage with the Internet and whatnot, it's guaranteed that there's a whole lot more people out there who relate and want to know you based on your experience alone and even those who are not far from your reach in real life that love you more than you think. It can save your life. The world is a big place, you don't have to suffer alone. Say something. Be Brave.
Words are powerful and we can either be the friend or foe of someone else with them. We can use them to build someone up as well as ourselves or knock down the person and bring ourselves down in the process.
Brave is pretty much saying that we can use words for either or not use them at all and someone suffers in silence as the result. It has powerful effects no matter which angle you see it under and probably is a reference with bullying which is such a common problem today.
What lines struck the most with me was:
"Innocence, your history of silence Won’t do you any good Did you think it would?"
My personal input on that is the fact that I've been a victim and all I did was stay quiet, not even to reach out to anyone while it was happening and why I fell into a depression to begin with. Therefore, people just thought I was shy and innocent and in turn took a nice advantage for it to affect the way it did and hard to be taken seriously if I finally ever were to share anything. It's about reaching out and sharing your thoughts and it can possibly save many other people's lives as well as your own let alone the mental and emotional scars and pain one has to endure.
For those who are being bullied I just have to say this - there may be a nice amount of people who are inflicting their pain (which is why many bully in the first place - they are in pain themselves) and giving their hate onto you even if you didn't do anything, but especially now that we have the advantage with the Internet and whatnot, it's guaranteed that there's a whole lot more people out there who relate and want to know you based on your experience alone and even those who are not far from your reach in real life that love you more than you think. It can save your life. The world is a big place, you don't have to suffer alone. Say something. Be Brave.