What's Your True Colour??

BULLYING.

It happens every day.  It may have even happened to you at one point in your life.  Or maybe you were the one doing the bullying.

National Bullying Awareness Week is November 12-17.  For Manitoba, it's November 13-19.

Bullying awareness needs to be more than just a week long event.  It's needs to be on going.

Bullying sucks, plan and simple.  It hurts and has cost many lives.  The sad part about bullying -of any type, is that it takes the extreme for it to be noticed.

Any one who has ever experienced bullying needs to talk to someone and find a way to stand up to the pain.

Canadian artists Pierre Bouvier of Simple Plan, Hedley’s Jacob Hoggard, Lights, Kardinal Offishal, Fefe Dobson, Alyssa Reid, Walk Off the Earth and Autotune the News, have come together in the remake of Cyndi Lauper’s track: True Colors.  They call themselves Artists Against.

The track is to help bring awareness to bullying and to encourage kids and teens to call Kids Help Phone so that they don't have to feel alone.  The net proceeds from the single go to Kids Help Phone, so I encourage everyone to purchase the song.

Artists Against - True Colors:

"Show me a smile then, don’t be unhappy
Can’t remember when I last saw you laughing
If this world makes you crazy and you’ve taken all you can bear
You call me up because you know I’ll be there

I see your true colors shining through
I see your true colors, that’s why I love you
So don’t be afraid to let them show your true colors
True colors are beautiful (Cheer up!) like a rainbow

I see your colors though they appear to be different
You should never be afraid because your difference is the difference
We live in a time where to be yourself is hard
And the way you really feel can leave you emotional scar
But stay strong, stay firm and never back down
Being yourself is the only way to act that
(Like a rainbow)
Trust me, I’m a fighter and a lover
But the only time I fight is to reveal my true colors"

So what are your true colours??