Capture the Convo with GAYLE

Transcript

Say I’m your bestie, your best friend, how would you bring up conversation if you know I’ve been maybe struggling or going through something?

I’ve struggled with my room a lot and it’s really embarrassing because I live in a mess.

And it’s, like, hard for me to talk about and it, at times, can make me like drown in myself ‘cuz I’m so overwhelmed.

And I remember like one of my best friends, I was going through something and she didn’t even really know.

And she was like, “Hey, like, are you good?”

And I was like, “Yeah.”

And she was just like, “You seem really sad recently. Like, you just seem sad. I just want to make sure you’re okay.”

And then I just started crying.

And it was nice for somebody to just kind of be like, “Hey, like if you ever need help in that, like, we’re totally here.”

And you know it wasn’t, like, a big deal or any-

It was just kind of like, “Hey, you know we’re here? Right? Like, we’re totally here for you.”

They literally helped me clean my room.

And my room has, like, kind of stayed cleaner because of that.

And, like, I was able to kind of, like, talk about something that was really embarrassing.

But then I was able to talk about it and people were here to help me and that was really nice.

For more resources on how to check in on a friend, go to SeizeTheAwkward.org.