Our business is developing niche information sites and so I’m always on the look out for sites that might be useful to people.
IHateMyself.WS was inspired by spending three hours sitting in A & E at our local Kingsmill Hospital near Mansfield on a Saturday night, trying to find out if my daughter had broken her foot having fallen on it playing hopskotch. It’s not a place anyone wants to be at any time of day but Saturday night is particularly rough, and I genuinely hated myself a little bit for having to bring my beautiful sensitive 10 year old daughter into such a shithole, although that’s not why I created this site!
Fortunately this particular Saturday, we were lucky to have two police officers in the vicinity for almost the whole time we were there, accompanying a guy in handcuffs, one of the many who’d been fighting that evening – so I felt a little safer for that.
There’s not much to do in A & E besides look at the people who come in and try to work out what they’ve been up to. For most, it’s quite easy. Blood splattered faces and shirts, stinking of alcohol and jeering about their exploits, Saturday night’s the night for fighting. One lady was almost certainly the victim of domestic violence – she was far too well groomed to have been in a pub brawl. A couple of older people look liked they’d had some fall around the house. And then there was one colourful character who reminded me of Jade Goody when she was first on Big Brother, who spotted a mate and happily yelled how she’d cut her wrists, waving her bloodstained bandaged arms proudly to prove the point.
I don’t know that the people in A + E that evening hate themselves. I think quite a number actually had enjoyed themselves that evening, oblivious to the fact that millions of people in the UK were paying for their late night expedition to hospital, for them to take priority over my innocent 10 year old daughter who genuinely needed medical attention and had to wait for 3 hours for it, pushed to the back of the line because she didn’t have a bleeding nose or splattered bloodstained shirt from fighting. But without doubt there were people in there who weren’t happy with their lot, or who acted like a complete bunch of pricks because they didn’t believe in themselves enough to do better. A little keyword research revealed that thousands of people each month type in ‘I hate myself’ ‘I want to die’ ‘How can I change my life’ into Google (granted some are searching for lyrics!). And so, I Hate Myself.WS is to be a motivational website for them to find the inspiration and encouragement to do something better.
Written by : Jen
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