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Bullying is a cycle. In this episode we learned about what happened between Courtney and Hannah, that Courtney’s gay, and Tyler publicly posted a blurred picture of Courtney and Hannah making out. If we analyze each character that bullied the late Hannah Baker, we can see that all of them are either bullied, have family issues, or has some social issues. This are what makes a bully. I don’t believe that a person was born a bully. It is how they are brought up by their parents and influenced by the people surrounding them, most especially their friends. Surprisingly, bullying is one of the biggest reason why teenagers are committing suicide. I have watched countless news reporting teens in high school taking their own lives for some hate comments on social media. It does seem petty but its just the surface. I cannot even wrap it up in my head on what other nasty things did his/her classmates did to make him/her decide to just die? It must’ve been worse than you can imagine. Being an advocate is good but making an impact and contributing for a change in this kind of bad trend or practice in schools will stop students/teenagers from even having the thought of just dying.

Depending on our own perspective, high school can be heaven or hell. It was revealed in the pilot episode of 13 Reasons Why that Hannah Baker took her own life and from here we can already tell how high school was for her.

As I have said in my previous posts, I am an introvert. My family, especially my mother, and some of my friends has shown their concern for me. They worry that as I transfer school for senior high I might be an easy target for bullies because of my shyness. My mother worried most about me struggling on having/making new friends, because I don’t really socialize as much as others. In this series, social standing is a one big factor to have a good high school experience, which is totally true in real life but not for me. Unlike most of the teenagers today I don’t get strength and confidence on other people and their opinions. I always find my strength and confidence in God and in the people that are dearest to me, like my family.

At the end of the episode, Clay, the one whom Hannah sent her tapes to, saw Tony as he was going through one of the  13 tapes that was entrusted to him for a certain reason, and asked if why can’t he just tell him what’s on those tapes. Tony wasn’t able to answer his question and has advised him to just “keep listening”. Now to me it is sad that Hannah possibly took her life in order to get everyone’s attention and listen to what she has to say.