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Edited by lonepaul2441:
1/2/2014 2:47:46 PM
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3/4 of a million Young Brits feel they have nothing to live for
[quote]As many as three quarters of a million young people in the UK may feel that they have nothing to live for, a study for the Prince's Trust charity claims.
The trust says almost a third of long-term unemployed young people have contemplated taking their own lives.
Urgent action must be taken to prevent the young jobless becoming the young hopeless, it says.
The government commented that it was doing "everything possible" to help young people find work.
Last month, figures from the Office for National Statistics showed the UK unemployment rate had fallen to its lowest level since 2009, with the number of people out of work falling by 99,000 to 2.39 million in the three months to October.[/quote]
I wouldn't consider suicide but I consider myself one of those youngsters (16-25), some people may have saw what I posted in Tartan 118's thread about it.
What do you think?
"From Tartans Thread"
[quote]I never had a relationship so seeing people I went to school with having kids and such I just feel like I have failed as a man and a human being.
I have no job, no gf, no kids and I feel like I have gone no where since high school, it's incredibly depressing.[/quote]
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2 RepliesThe problem with people today (especially young people) is that we're totally obsessed with the idea that we have to amount to something. We go to the cinema and we see all these people doing fantastic things with their lives acting in films, we turn on the radio and we hear all these people doing fantastic things with their lives making music, we look around us in the street and we see men wearing nice suits and nice shoes and women wearing expensive dresses with matching hats and handbags, we turn on the TV and we see all these people walking up and down catwalks with big smiles getting page-1 headlines; we see all these people 'doing something of worth' with their lives and then we contrast that with our own lives and if we do not see the things we see in others whom we admire, we think we are worthless because we don't have them. This is the problem, we put the worth in the things and not in the person; it's just an advanced form of materialism really. If we don't amount to something, if we don't have a nice house, a decent paying job, lots of friends and a wife and kids, our lives are completely worthless and we may as well kill ourselves. So some people do. It's not the way we should be thinking and it's destroying us.
