It all makes me wonder..... (From News Shopper)

It all makes me wonder.....

2:00pm Friday 25th January 2008

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In the past few weeks there have been murders, car crashes, suicides, robberies, money laundering etc.
I just stop and ask myself "What drives a person to commit some of these acts?".......
Of course some of the above things I have mentioned are merely accidents and others are motivated by money, but it's the people who commit murders, and the people who commit suicide which I am mostly referring to.

This week I have been reading of the seven young adults who took their lives. They all knew eachother and the nationals have writteb about a possible suicide 'internet' pack via the social networking site, Bebo.

I took the time to visit Natasha Randall's page and the decorative font and photos showed a young 17-year-old who seemed to love her friends and family more than anything, she seemed so happy, so what made her end her life?

It is an answer which no-one will ever know, and I guess it is the same for the other six.

Did they want to achieve fame so badly that they had to end their lives to do it? (if that was the reason then I guess they have achieved it, afterall, I, as a person who never knew any of them, is writing about them).

Were they all so close that after the first person took his life everyone followed as if to be by their side once more?

It's just so upsetting that these people have ended their lives so suddenly, they could have been very successful and happy, but now they do not have that chance.

Some say it's brave to come to terms with no longer wanting to be alive, others think it selfish, to leave families and friends behind, what do you think?

I also read the story about 14-year-old Jessica Knight, who was stabbed up to 30 times while walking in a park.

A man has handed himself into the police.

If this man did carry out the attack? why? was it just a very random act of madness or is he mentally unstable?

Either way I guess what I am trying to convey in this blog is that we all have friends and families who we spend a lot of time with, but do we really take notice of them?

Do we know if they feel low, depressed and suicidal? do we know if our nephew or niece is mentally unstable?

I know I am guilty of not knowing how my closest one's feel sometimes, or how their day has been.

We should all take a little time out of our lives to really talk to eachother, I know it's easier said than done, but I think we should all really think about it.

Some people are hard to read, but when you know someone well enough then you'll know that when they say they are "Ok" what they may be really saying is, "No, I need to talk."

Letting people know you are really there for them may actually one day save someone's life, either their own, yours or a complete strangers.