One Christmas when I was visiting my relatives in Illinois, I was talking about bullies at my school to my uncle when he told me that if I don't ever want to get bullied you should always treat others like you want to be treated. At the time I may have just been interested in my presents that I would get to unwrap the next morning, but those words stayed with me.

Now I always try to be everyone I meet for two main reasons. The first reason is I don't really want anyone to be mean to me because then I might make enemies with someone who could have been my new best friend. My second reason is that it is just nice to be nice and bullying can ruin some peoples lives. The words that my uncle said so long ago may have saved my from a lonely, sad, and depressing bullies life and for that I am eternally grateful.