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A single call can save lives

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I was angry with a colleague whom we had started a struggle together and he abandoned it half way. He didn’t show up to follow up with the struggle, neither did he call to inquire about it progress. This went on for some time until this week. For some reasons, I just felt the need to call him, not to check on him per se, but to chastise him for the manner at which he had abandoned the whole thing we started together. But unfortunately, what I met was beyond me. I placed a call to him and when he picked up, he asked for the identity of the caller. This got me a little infuriated, so i responded angrily with my name, hoping to follow up with a critical rant, but before I utter another word, he had fired like five, ranting about his life. He sounded frustrated and depressed, more like someone tired of this life. He began to talk about how he has forgotten if anyone like me ever existed. He said he never even remember he knew anyone like me because the issues he his dealing with h...