Lets Rant About Unemployment!...

From a turn of recent events, i feel the need to express how unemployment makes me feel at this moment in time. I mean i understand some people physically can not work, so they claim benefits. However there are more people who CAN work who just choose to take money from the government, and more importantly the working class citizens. This popular type of people anger me a great deal.

Mainly,, it is because, being a student with no past work experience except for 2 weeks in a primary school, its not very easy for me to get a job. Im starting to give up in reality, since I must be absolutely terrible if I even got rejected from McDonalds. So what annoys me is the people who are just too lazy to work, get paid to go to the job centre once a week, and claim money off the people who work their derriere off week in week out to provide for families, pets, bills and general living. So whilst the people who CAN work but are just too lazy to are sat at home watching Jeremy Kyle, there are hardworking people doing their best to get a well paid job for many reasons, such as, paying for university, providing for a family, and also for personal enjoyment.

I guess the point i'm trying to make, is why are lazy people allowed by law to receive money for nothing, when everyone else has to work their buttocks off to pay the next bill or put the next meal on the table?

Also i have another quick rant. For all people looking for a job, they require experience in the area. However for youths its not so easy, as how can they gain the needed experience...if nobody will give them the opportunity to do so?

Rant over.

Realisation

Well. Where to start?

Its been one heck of a life so far. At a young age being taken away from everything I had known. Moving to the other end of the country to a strange and what seems a horrible place to the naked eye. But like everywhere, you realise that its not the place that make a city, its the people within the city. So as you can guess the move was quite an experience, and sent my mind into turmoil. And since i was only 4 it didn't take me too long to get used to the move, and as time went on, my former life back down in Oxford was nothing but blurred memories of family.

So soon enough I started school in Rothwell, and as children do, made friends quite easily. But it wasn't until around the age of 9 that I was shown life wasn't all it had cracked up to be. The reason for this realisation being one simple word which has a different meaning and experience to everyone. That one word being, 'Bullies'. One of the main reasons I was a target of bullying, was a lifelong problem. My weight. That's where it all started. It seemed at the time that the worst that could happen was some petty immature insult, eg. 'Beach Whale','Fatty'. And then it started to progressively deteriorate from then. Ranging from stolen items such as pencil cases to jewelry. Suddenly one event which seems extremely petty to mention, however at a young age and having just realised the truth about how some people can behave, upset me a great deal. This event being the item i held close to me and treasured it with all my heart being taken off me in the school grounds, and smashed to pieces. This item being my flute. So i guess you could say i learnt a lot about people then.

However, i have learnt more about people in general in the past 2 years or so, of which i will explain how. Well long story short. I thought i knew who my friends were, but clearly i didn't as soon enough, everyone split their own ways or stabbed me in the back.

I know to another person it may seem like a sad or pathetic thing to do, but i turned to the internet for someone to talk to about everything. And yes i met lots of people from far away but 3 people have stood out the most. They have made an impact on me i would never have imagined. The very first one being a boy called, Andrew Greenway. We talked for a while and as with the rest of the people online i had met, we eventually stopped talking. Then a few months later we began talking more often until soon enough it was a daily thing and our friendship began to rapidly build up. And now i feel i could trust this boy with my life and i will admit i havent met him. But i actually feel proud to call him the first one of my three best friends.

The second of my three best friends is a boy i met last January. His name being Benjamin Richardson. As soon as we started talking we didnt stop for hours until we were both too tired to carry on talking. Then within a month we were so close we aranged to meet up. Call me childish or whatever you will. But it was a freedom i never had before. Since up until that point i had only been friends with people who were either used or stabbed me in the back. And being given the opportunity to have a friend who was genuine made me feel free. So sure enough at the end on January 2009 i was in Nottingham and walking around with my new best friend. And i wont lie, it was one of the best day of my life. Especially knowing he is a close friend and we have been through thick and thin with each other for support. And now i know he is a friend for life. So not knowing who or what to thank for this i shall just thank the amazing friend himself.

Third and finally, the friend i haven't been talking to for quite so long but is still an amazing friend. This boy being called Daniel Sherwood. I have to say that this boy i would trust my life with and i feel i can tell him anything thats on my mind and he will always either cheer me up, or give me advice on what to do. And this point has been proved pointless times. And yes i haven't met him. But still he is one of my closest friends. And anyone who is friends with this boy down in Hastings is so lucky.

I would do anything for either of these three as they mean so much to me. And i know i would be questioned by many people about, how can i be friends and trust people i haven't met? Well. That question has a simple answer. There is no chance of them telling people which makes me feel its easier to talk to them. Also. I feel like these three people have changed my life so much for the better. They have made me realise how a friendship should work, that its a two way deal and if it works one way. It's not a friendship at all.

I don't know what point i was really trying to make with this post, but i guess im trying to say that you find friendship in places you wouldn't imagine. And once you realise what people can be like, be prepared and don't expect everything to work in your favour because life is life and it doesn't always work out the way you want it to. But for me. It has worked out. I have the 3 best friends i could ever wish for.

So thats one part of my life in a rather large nut shell, some will agree with points iv made, so will disagree but in the end its my life to screw up not theirs and i will do what makes me feel better and happier.