a friend of mine had a certain major disappointment in life recently and had come to me to pour out her woes. me feels very awkward in such situations. i’m no qualified “agony uncle”. seriously have no clue as to how to deal with such situations. dunno what to tell her. afraid of saying something that’ll depress her further. but still she believes i can help her out of her current situation. and keeps talking.
strategy i’ve adopted of late is to just sit quietly and patiently listen and season the other person’s monologue with “ok”s and “yeah i get the point”s. at least that way i believe i don’t do anything negative and also the other person might feel better with someone having heard her completely…