How to Romanticise Your Life
I talked somebody off a ledge last month. And now I want to talk you into dancing far far away from it.
I talked somebody off a ledge last month.
He was stranger, he was struggling, he was calling out for help. Whilst the entire thing took place online — and I don’t know quite how seriously he meant it — I wasn’t taking any chances. It was 1am, I was four seconds away from meeting Robert Pattinson in the dream realm, and then I caught sight of his plea. I knew of him, but I didn’t know him — and I knew I needed to help.
“Just do me one favour okay? Just keep living. Give yourself a handful of days at least, hold off from doing anything bad, and take one thing at a time. This doesn’t mean you have to be productive or moving or even human in these next few days. All you have to do is keep existing. There’s no pressure or expectation. You can be sad and angry and scared, but the important thing is: you must be living. That’s all I’m asking. Just save your life for now and we can work on mending it tomorrow.” — that’s one of the things I said to him.
I don’t know if that’s what I should have said, but I did. I know there are many things you can do and say to help diffuse the situation, but in those moments I just wanted him to divert his attention away…
