Shelly+L’s+OpEd+Article

=**Braggers, Just Stop!!!!!!!**=

I hate it when people brag. I loathe those who brag about their family life, their grades, and most importantly their superiority over others. For me, bragging equals building your happiness right on top of someone else’s forlornness; you are using some other person to make yourself feel superior and arrogant.

There are many reasons why people brag. The first and the biggest is that they merely lack a sense of security. People find their confidence through boasting or sometimes worse, lying. Those who are diffident are most of the time the biggest braggers and liars and many of them have great plans that help them to get their desired effect of enjoying superiority; one is targeting the people who they knew are inferior and humble.

I think bragging can be count as a type of bullying. According to the dictionary, to bully someone is to use superior strength or influence to intimidate that person, typically forcing him or her to do what one wants. When bragging, one is using superior strength to intimidate his or her victims to feel inferior, forcing them to lose confidence.

Bragging is a crime that should be stopped. To all braggers out there, please consider and reconsider before taking action and please have mercy on others. Words can sometimes be fiercer than blades for they penetrate through the soul; word hurts.