“The biggest wall you have to climb is the one you build in your mind: Never let your mind talk you out of your dreams, trick you into giving up. Never let your mind become the greatest obstacle to success. To get your mind on the right track, the rest will follow.”
– Roy T. Bennett –
This movie’s heroine is Rachel Lang, Carrie’s half-sister. Telekinesis runs in the family and she has it too. The character, Sue, the lone survivor of the Black Prom in the first Carrie movie, is now the high school counselor. Sue notices Rachel’s powers and she takes an interest in Rachel and, at the same time, is leery of the powers Rachel possesses. Rachel is also bullied by her classmates and, like her half-sister, unleashes the full extent of her powers in the end, raining fiery justice on her school bullies.
The first time I saw Carrie was when I was a senior in high school and I couldn’t help but hurt for her.
She’s a high school senior who’s bullied by her classmates and abused by her psychotic and religious fanatic mother. It seems that Carrie can never get away from the drama and she longs for the things that everyone else seems to come by so easily.
One thing she does have that her classmates don’t is telekinetic powers- powers that she uses as a powerful weapon at the end of the movie. And when I got to see her pour out her wrath upon the people who treated her so badly, I was cheering her on inside and find myself secretly wishing that I too had those powers.
I think we all did if we ever saw the movie.
“Carrie” was Stephen King’s first published book that soared to the top of the best seller list, then became a movie in the 70’s. It’s an awesome movie for Halloween. If you haven’t seen it, you should.
The Halloweens of 19-something
Halloween was exciting and fun in the days of old
Several ghost stories we all sat in circles and told
Dressed as our favorite ghoul we covered the streets for trick-or-treat
Until way past Thanksgiving we’d feast on something good to eat
In front of houses with porch lights and jack-o-lanturns a-glow
Adults sat on their porch swings and chairs holding a huge candy bowl
Halloween in the old days was an exciting night
With Halloween parties and haunted houses set up to excite
No worries of home invasions, robberies, shootings, or guns
But only of bigger punks waiting to swipe our candy and gum
The Halloweens of old were full of fun and excitement
Not like those of today with the threat of crime and incitement
Halloween was an exciting time full of wonder and magic
Not like today with threats of high crime rates and sex-traffic
The streets were a-buzz, swarming with little ghosts and ghouls
No worries we had of the threat of gangsters and fools
Back then we trick-or-treated without a care
How I wish I could time-travel back there
“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. ”
~ Walt Disney ~
Mobbing at work concept, sketch of boss kicking his employee with red heels from behind on chalkboard
Many teachers and school staff often stick targets of mobbing and bullying with labels such as, “trouble,” “difficult,” or “problem child.” This sets the targeted child up to be discriminated against by their school and creates a very hostile and dangerous environment when adults are prejudiced against the poor, confused, and, in most cases, helpless kid.
In these types of situations, the target is only bullied worse because he/she isn’t afforded the same due process that their classmates and other kids get. As a result, the school staff ends up sticking up for the bullies and supporting, even encouraging them to bully that child.
We must realize that targets may act out due to the prolonged bullying they suffer and resulting stress because, let’s face it, no one can withstand the intense pressure of bullying and mobbing for long.
When a target is bullied and mobbed by their classmates, they are coerced and forced to submit to horrendous and downright grotesque abuse that is unfathomable to most adults. In other words, the message they receive from others is just to “shut up and take it.”
In fact, when you’re a target of school bullying and mobbing, your world becomes quite Kafkaesque and even you have a hard time believing what you’re experiencing. So, is it any wonder that no one else can believe it either?The questions, “What the hell?” and “Is this really happening?” come to mind and you feel as if you’ve stepped into the twilight zone.
This is because being mobbed is the feeling of being crushed by nonsensical, bizarre, and blind abuse and you’re powerless to understand or control what is happening.
The target suffers mistreatment, isolation, exclusion, and yes- even brutal physical beatings. And he’ll be too afraid to plead for help because he knows that not only will school staff ignore his cries, but his bullies will take retribution on him for daring to open his mouth.
Eventually the target snaps and acts inappropriately due to long-lasting and extreme stress. The bullying and abuse she suffers are ignored but the target’s reactions to it won’t be ignored. That’s when the target becomes re-victimized by the very adults, school, and system which is supposed to protect her.
Here’s an example:
A girl is bullied by everyone in her class. The teacher either doesn’t see it, thinks the girl deserves it, or thinks that bullying is only a right of passage that builds character. During one occasion, the targeted girl gets fed up with being mistreated. She turns around and punches the girl sitting behind her who pulled her hair.
Now the teacher, very conveniently, doesn’t see the other girl pull the target’s hair but she does see the target turn around and punch her in the nose. Therefore, the teacher punishes the target without even considering what the other girl did to the target to prompt her to punch her.
The message the teacher sends is crystal clear: The target has no recourse, and the bully now has carte blanche to continue bullying her in the future. So, this same scenario repeats itself a few times, and, the next thing you know, the target gets a bad name with the school staff, and they become very suspicious of her.
The principal catches the target in the hall between classes and tells her, aloud, in front of the other students, that he is watching her. The other kids, especially the bullies, overhear the principal and take it as a green light to continue their abuse because they know they won’t be held accountable. After all, if the target reports the bullying, who’s going to believe the “problem child?”
So, the school staff continue to harangue the target, making her situation much worse than what it needs to be. And their justification for their treatment of her is to protect the other students who fit into what is “normal” and who obey the rules. Therefore, they use that to defend their emotional abuse of the target and their singling her out for humiliation in front of God and everyone.
Understand that, when this occurs, the school is willingly participating in destroying another human being.
Therefore, it’s imperative that targeted students and teens hold on to their sense of self, their pride, and their confidence. They must hold on to those treasures with everything they have.
It’s also crucial that parents and grandparents teach them how- they must teach these children to believe in themselves even when it seems that no one else believes in them. They must teach them to know their worth even when others don’t.
They must teach them to love and respect themselves even as others hate and disrespect them because it is during the most difficult times that they’re need these virtues.
With knowledge comes power!
Changing words and definitions is the thing today
Mass mental illness and insanity on full display
The dumbing down of our society took a slow creep
Turning too many people into a docile herd of sheep
The wussification of America didn’t happen overnight
Immorality, hate, and treason slowly normalized and made “right”
Young brunette woman wearing white sweater gagged and tied with duct tape around wrists, facing camera, hostage concept.
Now, they’re trying to normalize pedophilia and pedophiles
I’ll bury them where they fall if they ever touch my child
They promote child porn and sex trafficking
They’re way past due for their day of reckoning
Soon we’re gonna light up the sky
When we make the pedophiles fry
The family unit being attacked and destroyed
It’s where they start to have a nation torn
Schools, colleges, and universities preaching hate and division
All to satisfy the CCP in the name of Communism
Through distraction, destruction, and projection
The Cloward-Piven Plan executed to perfection
Slowly, surely, incrementally, and barely noticeable over time
Was the evil and glee of the haters who aren’t worth a dime
Criminals, crazies, robbers, thieves, and murderers hailed as heroes
Servicepeople, veterans, Christians, and Patriots deemed as zeroes
But there are more of us than there will ever be of them
And we’ll work quietly behind the scenes to be free again