It's a tough time in the job market right now, no one's hiring, everyone's getting laid off, whats the deal???

Sometimes you don't really grasp the idea of something until it happens to you or someone you know, at my current job we just had a massive company restructuring and that meant layoffs. I know things like that happen but I've never been in that kind of moment so I always brushed it by, well it actually happened, I didn't affected by it but so many of my coworkers were and to see them gone while I'm still here does hurt me inside because it was so random and sudden, now I'm never going to see those people again and now we're extremely short staffed and I wonder a lot whether I'm lucky to still be here or if I would have rather been part of the layoff.

I found out some other companies were also doing layoffs which makes things worst because now everyone's going to start panic hiring people just to let them go in a year or two when numbers are down. I'm not going to pretend like my life would have been ruined if I got laid off with everyone else, but some of the people I knew we're planning on getting houses, one was even pregnant, now their world has shifted and my still too young to comprehend all of this mind isn't able to understand how you can go from working with someone everyday to never seeing them again.