Sometimes we all need someone to hold our hand

Or someone to hug us, or someone to look at us with kindness, or sometimes just a smile will suffice.

I’ve never, in my entire life, felt as lost as I did in the past 2 years. It was truly a harrowing experience, for so many different reasons. And I still, everyday, have to give myself little talks that things will be fine, that things are fine, that at some arbitrary, unknown-to-me, point in the future things will all be fine. It is a fair bit of work to convince myself though!

I emailed a client today because I had not heard from her all day (that was not normal!) and she admitted to having “one of those days”, and I told her the same thing that I’ve come to live by, “things will happen when they happen”.

I’ve been extremely fortunate to be able to work with mostly working mothers as my clients, it’s a wonderful experience because we are all struggling in many of the same ways and we can really empathize with one another. And in stark contrast to working in a huge corporation, it’s not really about the profits, it’s not really about “first to market”, it’s not really about competitors, most of the time it’s about making a difference, about sharing what we do best, what we know, helping one another, and sometimes… holding a hand.

We’re all struggling in some way, each of us is fighting our own battle, and I think we need to remember that sometimes a smile and some understanding is all a friend/sibling/parent/client/stranger may need from us.