15/10/2025
When someone is drowning, that’s not the time to teach them how to swim.
Sometimes people don’t need advice.
They don’t need a lesson.
They don’t need you to explain how they ended up in the water.
They need you to reach out your hand.
They need to know someone sees them, that someone cares enough to pull them out first.
You can teach later.
You can talk about how to stay afloat once they’re breathing again.
But in the middle of the storm?
What they need most is compassion, not correction.
Because when a person is fighting just to keep their head above water,
your empathy might be the only thing that saves them.
