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Hi everyone, is Sala, al-I'm going to Allahi,

bikato.

I'm al-Aqaibati al-Sala.

Aslamala, So there's been a lot of

a lot of discussion in the wake of the the death of Chadwick Bozeman who was

hiding his cancer diagnosis for four years about what people are really struggling

with and how we need to be more sensitive about how we treat people in the

public space how we treat people not just in the space, but people that we interact with and may not be paying close enough attention to.

And it was very interesting to see, for example, some of the commentary, you know, I saw some of those pictures from earlier this year where, you know, he was a lot skinnier and there were people that were mocking him in certain online spaces for his appearance, you know, people calling him a

crack user and all sorts of unkind things and you know provoked a discussion

about wounds, about invisible wounds and what people are dealing with, what people are struggling with.

And the reality is that everyone's going through something.

And we often don't pay attention to what people are going through. In fact, we often cause some of the pain

that they then live with unknowingly, unintentionally. And this idea of just being more sensitive

towards others, being more careful about our words, being

more inquisitive about how people are doing, but not just by way of conversational courtesy, but actually like doing check-ins with people that we know

to make sure that they're doing okay to let them know that we're there for them and obviously

it's a time you know it's a global pandemic and much

has been happening this year to where a lot of people are really struggling and a lot of

people that were struggling before the pandemic are struggling even more now.

But I wanted to talk about this from a

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