What makes you sad every time you think about it ?

[Imaybeacat]

There’s been a lot of sharing story threads so i’d like to start one - to start such a sad one
What story or fact about somebody/something etc makes you sad whenever it crosses your mind ?
For me it’s a late singer named Tiny Tim… I watched a video about him a few days ago and it’s been bloody depressing me . Whenever he pops into my head I have to go take a break and do something distracting!! Poor guy.
Need to feel better. Am I alone in this ?

Dunblane

Those beautiful, innocent children and their brave brave teacher.

Many, many that I have read on here are mine too. Also, the little boy on holiday from France, who was thrown off the Tate Modern. I think of him a lot and hope he's improving, day by day.

@Somethingsnappy I didn't say they were 'weirdly obsessive' though. @DueyCheatemAndHow has chosen to misread what I actually said.

Young girls and women still missing...probably victims of Robert Black and other sickos....Genette Tate .. April Fabb...Suzy Lamplugh...Claudia Lawrence...may you all rest in peace.

My last pay slip !.

@lollipoprainbow I didn't choose to misread, I just misread.

Regardless its still not pleasant to be spoken about in the manner that you did.

@Somethingsnappy thank you x

Brexit. My children can't travel and work Broad as freely as I did

The hillsborough disaster. I was only 7 when it happened, and I have vague memories of watching the news and seeing people on the pitch, and then the nationwide grief afterwards.
Not sure why it stuck with me so much, but I now have two teenage boys who love going to football matches together, and the thought of them going to a match and something like that happening is just unthinkable, I know it wouldn't happen now, but there were many parents, wives, husbands, etc that waved off their loved ones that day that could never have imagined how tragically the day would end

All the children who were left isolated with their abusers during lockdown, I doubt that little arthur & baby star were the only ones, I said the very first day lockdown was announced that there would be children who never came out of their houses again also all the suicides in the last 18 months, including my friend, I've seen so so many young men just give up...its been awful

Young girls and women still missing...probably victims of Robert Black and other sickos....Genette Tate .. April Fabb...Suzy Lamplugh...Claudia Lawrence...may you all rest in peace.

Yes, we’ll never know how many Robert Black killed. Girls who went missing in the 80s particularly...

I often think of Madeleine McCann too, even with the passage of time.
Such a disturbing case, quite scary really.

Alesha macphail, what an evil young man to do that to an innocent child. I saw the sentencing on Facebook, I really wish I hadn’t, he was smiling the whole time and the screams that came out of her poor mother was haunting, absolutely disgusting creature

Anything where people are cruel to children, I can’t understand it? My own mother was a cruel and abusive woman growing up but only towards me not my siblings, I think her own mother had been the same with her but I have broken that chain with my children, they are the most precious thing in my life and couldn’t imagine making them suffer, I’d die before hurting them

The bit in Black Beauty when ginger is killed. I read the children's abridged version when I was in year 4 and cried all afternoon. I know it's only fiction, but I love animals and the sketch of her poor lifeless body lying on the back of the cart with the title 'Ginger's Troubles Are Over' still haunts me. I can't bring myself to watch the film.

I saw a post on LinkedIn at the weekend which was by the son of one of the victims of the Yorkshire Ripper (I think, he didn't say, he said she went out one day and never came back because she'd been murdered by a serial killer). He wrote about his sister not being able to cope and completing suicide as an adult. Very sad and made me think of this thread. We forget about the long term effects of these crimes.

That guy has an excellent Ted Talk @ColinTheKoala - I saw it then followed him on LinkedIn.

Anything involving children really gets to me..I remember reading a story about a mother who strapped her young children into their car seats and then drove into a lake, drowning them all. I can't imagine the fear they felt.

9/11 and those who jumped. That moment when they realised death by jumping was better than the alternative and what they thought in those seconds it took to land.

Dunblane, and any school shooting. The brave teachers! Protecting the children. Also in America that boy who used his whole body to hold the door shut stopping the gunman getting in & his fellow classmates to escape. He lived thankfully but what a bloody hero!!

Finally, Robin Williams

Aberfan

This morning when I dropped my daughter off to school there was a girl and her dad walking ahead of us, when we got round the corner she was sobbing in his arms. Either she didn't want to go to school or maybe it was something else but I thought about her all day.

A personal one. I saw some kids walking home from the secondary my twins went to. I suddenly felt really sad and tearful that my two missed out on the end of their time there, it all stopped suddenly in March last year. No exams, no prom, no fun with friends to celebrate end of GCSEs etc.

They're at a different sixth form to their friends so didn't get a proper goodbye. (And even that has been hampered by covid, online learning, them having covid etc)

What a shitty time.

Every time I think about the fact that I'm not enjoying motherhood and that it's not forever so it will be all gone one day and I won't have cherished any of it

@Peppapigforlife

Every time I think about the fact that I'm not enjoying motherhood and that it's not forever so it will be all gone one day and I won't have cherished any of it

Hugs. Have you spoken to anybody about how you feel?

The murders of both little Arthur Labinjo-Hughes and little Star, both avoidable if the authorities had done their job, it makes me both mad and very sad.

@croydon15 totally agree, they were completely let down by the authorities who could/should have saved them. Appalling.