It's such a surreal thing, to realise that someone is always worse off than you.

I'm trying to get contact lenses. I've had glasses for seven years and I can't wait to get rid of the damn things. I've had a few fittings, and today I hoped to get them for real. Only thing is, I can't take the damn things out properly.

My optometrist wasn't keen on letting me take them home. So I was feeling pretty awful about the fact I had to wait a whole week.

Then the local vet rang to say that they'd turned down my work experience application because of occupational health and saftey laws.

Needless to say. I felt very depressed for a while.
Then the news came on. Halfway across the world, thirty-three people had died at an American university.

I felt very selfish simply because all I'd been thinking about was my own problems when thirty-three people wouldn't be going home tonight.

It just felt so... lonely.