“I couldn’t leave him there alone, but I had to go, so I was going to ring an ambulance. I told him they could help him feel better. But he was like ‘please, please don’t call them, I’m fine, I just want to walk around for a while, I’m gonna be okay!’ I told him to please let me ring an ambulance, that I wouldn’t sleep knowing he was just walking around alone.”
“He said in that moment that I approached him, he was just about to jump, and those few words saved his life. That they’re still ringing in his head every day.
‘Are you okay?’
“I can’t really understand how these few words could save his life, but he told me, ’Imagine if nobody ever asked you those words…’”