When I was young I rode the school bus. The older kids on the bus would sell me cheap Pokemon trading cards for more than they were worth. Thinking I would be "cool" like them, I would stupidly give them all my lunch money for the cards.

I wouldn't eat because of their tricks, and because I didn't think ahead. Years later I saw the same tricks being pulled on kids younger than me. I sat by and did nothing; I just let it happen.

Too often people just stand by and let others be taken advantage of. We should do a better job listening for the cries of the trampled and do something about it.

by Andrew Noe from d365.org