Okay, so I'm pretty sure life is depressing right now. I have been working 12 hour shifts, 9 days in a row now, to get some extra cash saved up to fly back home. Home is a town of 300 people. Right now I live in a town of 4,000. That's not really a lot of people, and we've been known to have one of the safest towns around here. Yet, since Friday, there have been 4 killings. 2 of them were on Friday, a father and his daughter, and the one today was a co worker of mine whom I had spoken to earlier today. Her ex husband decided that their 2 children, ages 11 and 7 I believe, didn't need their mother or father. So he shot her, and then turned the gun on himself. Reallly people? It's almost Christmas.. a time where you're supposed to be happy and surrounded by those you love, not mourning because some selfish asshole decided they didn't want you breathing anymore. This all just makes me so sick to my stomach. I used to not feel scared walking down my street, yet now, I'm looking to buy a gun. I just.... Idk what to think of this world anymore, and it makes me sad. I'm scared to one day bring children into this world.
But sadly the very holidays we all started to enhance family love and togetherness and treating one another with love and respect has slowly been taken over by materialism and an almost chore like pressence to the entire event that leads to the one day.
I hope your hard work pays off and you enjoy your holidays. And don't let the negativity of the world blind you to the still ever present positivity in all of us.