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If you have a story to share, send it to Let's Not Meet Stories at gmail.com. After college, I wanted to volunteer in my community in a meaningful way, and I chose to become a suicide and crisis lifeline volunteer.

The training took place every Saturday for two months, and each session lasted several hours.

It was intense and a big commitment, but I felt empowered to help

someone at their lowest point and keep them safe for at least one more day. Once I started answering

the phones as a lifeline volunteer, it was heartbreaking and energetically taxing, but also incredibly rewarding.

I tried my very best to connect with anyone who heard my voice on the other end of their line.

My fellow volunteers were a huge reason as to why I was successful.

They provided support and encouragement and sometimes ideas on what to say.

We were all pretty tight-knit in my class of volunteers, and I assumed anyone else who worked

or volunteered there would be as compassionate, lovely, and trustworthy as the people I had trained

with. That included Greg, a volunteer who wasn't in my cohort group, but whom I started

to casually get to know through working a lot of the same shifts. He was in his 50s while I was in

my mid-20s. He was somewhat of a legend at Lifeline, as he had volunteered there steadily for decades and was both a

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