86 - The One Person I Managed to Save
One goal achieved. For a year now, I’ve been looking after a homeless girl who comes to the shop at least three times a week. It wasn’t much Just a large hot drink in winter, a cold one on the scorching days, and whatever food she could take back to her tent under the bridge. Sometimes, the only thing I could offer was a space where she could talk without judgement, without needing to pretend she was okay. As the months passed, she stopped wearing masks around me. She told me about her life, her struggles, Her condition that I wasn't aware of, her schizophrenia Whenever she had an episode, she would come back later and explain it to me. There were days she arrived agitated, and I found myself talking to her and to the other voice living inside her mind. I asked for advice from customers who worked in mental health, from people in government services, from anyone who might know how to help her. If I could have taken her home, I ...