Happy New Year....or not

I just got a text from a new friend of mine telling me that a friend of her’s just committed suicide. I’m still getting to know her, and I in no way know the friend. But still for some reason, the news hit me rather hard. The best way to describe it would be to imagine one’s self to be walking on a side walk, and then suddenly for the side walk to end…but you unaware keep walking and fall into the unknown. I’m lost right now, and I don’t know what to do, or what to think. I feel helpless. This New Year is supposed to be a reason to celebrate, yet this family isn’t. Which brings me to the question. What’s the point of life, if one can end it in an instant like that. Really, what’s the fucking point.