First post of 2016: A new year, for some.

Sooooo, that's it, 2015 has been and thankfully gone!

No, 2015 wasn't an all bad year for me. I started Uni, I got a new job...

I could say '2016 is gonna by my year' but honestly, all I want is for 2016 to be a year where things don't go completely wrong for me.

January can be quite a sad month for a lot of people but frankly I'm quite glad that Christmas and New Years are over. They're both holidays that are over commercialised leaving care leavers and others feeling unwanted, unimportant and suicidal.

Who says that Christmas alone is a horrible thing? Who says that being without family at this time is the worst thing in the world?
It's all in our heads. Christmas, New Years, Valentines day... they can all be whatever we want. It's society that brings people down with the idea of a 'perfect Christmas' or a 'perfect new star to the year'.

New years day was great for me, I got to meet up with one of my best friends in Worthing. As I got to the train station on my way home I saw that all of the trains were delayed. The man working said how someone had jumped on the railway line at Arundel.

New Years day, the start of the year and someone had decided to taken their life. Why is New Years a time when this happens? Because of commercialisation! My heart mourned for that person and what they must have been going through. 

People say 'suicide is selfish' and 'they should have been thinking about their family'. This frustrates me so much. The people that say these things must not have a clue about how cruel life can be. We have one life, do you realise how far someone has to be pushed to not want the opportunity of living anymore? And there's always a presumption that's there's loved family members devastated by the death, how do you even know they weren't completely alone? Or that their family members aren't already dead? You don't and the assumptions really ought to stop.

I hope that every person feeling suicidal gets the help they need before it's too late. When you're in that place, the picture is so small.

I really like the film 'A long way down'. Whenever I'm feeling sad, it cheers me up. It's about four people who all go to the same place on top of a building somewhere in London on new years eve to end their lives. They all become great friends and unite together in finding happiness and individual meaning in their lives. Definitely watch it.

Rest in Peace to all those who sadly took their lives over the season.