Persuasive Speech About Being Outsiders

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Bullies they suck right? Or have you never been bullied or perhaps you have been the person to bully? Have you changed your self so that you are not bullied making your self a person you are not? Do you consider other people as outsiders or yourself as an outsider? Many people especially in high school do what I like to call following which is changing yourself in order to fit better if to a group of friends, maybe that means that you start to bully others because it's what you friends do or maybe you are sucked into a group that may peer pressure you into things like drugs or alcohol and you do them because you think if you don't your friends won’t be your friends.
Let's start from the beginning, when we were kids nobody cared what others thought we did what we wanted, no one was trying to impress anyone, everyone was themselves, in my opinion kids are the smartest and strongest of us all. Kids are protect from those outside harms and
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When you look back on what you've done, the answer to “why” it’s always right there in front of you but you didn't see it. As a kid I think we are all outsiders we all have different dreams and what we want to become but as we get older we change those dreams to things others think we should become that we don't really want but what we want is to not be the outsider we want to be normal. If you look at this people we call outsiders, they are the most creative, the most generous, the most kind, the smartest, the strongest, and these people will be the ones that propel us into a new generation, these people that today we call outsiders, their creativity will create the new future. The people that stretched the limits of the world back then to create thing to day like the internet or smartphones had their dreams shot down but they fought through the debri and made their dreams a

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