Why the SDGs matter if you're a kid being bullied

If you’re a kid being bullied, marginalised, sad, cutting yourself, depressed…talking about achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) can’t seem that relevant or probable.

Why care about these huge challenges when your own life hurts like hell?

It’s not that you’re unsympathetic…it’s just so abstract, it may as well be another Universe.

Leave the plastic packaging in the supermarket? Buy local produce? Set up your own business because there won’t be any jobs? Use a refillable cup or water bottle?

You must be thinking, “Seriously, how could that possibly matter to me?”

You’re wishing that all of those people around you taking action for others, would notice that you feel like s**t too.

When you’re making a difference for them, you’re wishing for a you to blitz in on roller-skates (it's a retro moment) and save you too.

You do the activity for a bit because it feels good to be good. For a while, you don’t feel like you can’t breathe because of the sadness pressing in on your heart-space.

What can I tell you that isn’t trite or glib self-help?

Only this.

A different perspective. A candle in the window.

I know that YOU matter and you can tell me different, but I will not change my mind.

Those SDGs are for you too because we are all connected on this blue dot.

Pick this goal #3 Good Health & Wellbeing.

Start with your life.

When you ask for help for you, you know how to find the answer for them.

I could drop you into a refugee camp in Greece, or a remote village in India, or your school corridors, or a playing field, or the school bus; and you would know exactly how to talk to the kid who is feeling what you are feeling. Your story is their story too.

So, if you’re a kid being bullied, marginalised, sad, cutting yourself, depressed…take one step towards loving yourself. Each breath you take is the future You now.
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Step out of your silence; disrupting the darkness has the power to change the course of history. Make today the day, when by being in the everyday moments of your life, you are as we say, "achieving those global goals."

Write it, speak it, find a Youtube video that says it for you…tell someone so that they can take action for you too.
 
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