Chapter 9.... It get's better

Chapter 9.

Not to be speaking out of poor taste but it seems like everyone is working on those “It Gets Better” videos. With the rise young people committing suicide due to getting bullied for being different and or gay, I am glad that more companies and celebrities are making these videos. Children should know from day one that it’s okay to be different and we all eventually find a place for ourselves in the world as long as we are open to it.

In the “It gets better” videos, it’s often celebrities who talk about how they were once bullied, now they are successful living in their huge mansions, piles of money, with great careers and it gets better (for them). This is meant to encourage children and people who are different and feeling alone which is great but it’s not true for the average person.

Whoever thought up the “It gets better” campaign obviously hasn’t spent time at the same places I have. Like most things in life, I think that honesty is the key. This is why I want to make my own video. In mine I will tell the truth. It starts with me in front of a black screen:

“Hi my name is Yuri Kagan. I am an ex-bartender/comedian you have never heard of. I was a fat awkward kid who spent my youth shopping in the husky section, stuffing my face with pop-tarts, hot pockets and anything else I could find. I was bullied as a kid. Let me be the first to say it gets awkward, you loose weight after realizing food isn't love, get slutty, black out, then it gets better.”

Another idea that can be a video opens in a bar like the Labarynth. The bar is empty and there is one man in his early 20s, very good looking. He could be blonde maybe with good muscle tone and is in good all around shape. The video opens with him alone at the bar. There are people walking all round him. Drag queens, men, women, manly lesbians, lady-boys walk around him. He is in an Abercrombie shirt sipping from a martini for about 10 seconds and then the next 8 seconds everything around him speeds up. As time speeds up he is still slowly drinking the martini, but aging until he gets to about 80. Then there is a writing that pops up at the bottom of the screen saying, “it gets better.”