My post last Sunday was about reaching out to your friends/family and holding space for others. Reading that some one reached out. A friend with whom I had not spoken in many years. We just saw each other’s posts on LinkedIn and Facebook and occasionally liked them. She said she wanted to speak. I offered a video call hoping she may want me to be present. She jumped at it and when she called all she did was cry. No words were spoken, no hi-hellos were exchanged. All she did was let her emotions flow. There was pain, there was sadness in those tears and all I could do then was hold the space for her to decide how she wanted to communicate with me. The communication, as I realised, didn’t need any words. Her tears were enough. And all of a sudden she was quiet. We were in that space for almost 5 minutes. I could just hear raindrops outside the window against which she was leaning. And then, I saw her smile. I smiled backed knowing that she probably spoke