When a person is in a difficult situation, what do you do? Offer support. Being by someone’s side when they announce something big, listening, or even hugging someone is support, and it can go a long way. Whether it’s suffering from the holocaust like Ellie Wiesel, or coming out to your family like me, everyone’s friends and family can and should support them.
Firstly, in the well-known book, Night, by Ellie Wiesel, Wiesel writes about his experience in a concentration camp during World War two. Wiesel was sent away with his father and might not have survived if it was for his father by his side encouraging him to live. His father acted as a crutch when Wiesel thought he couldn’t take it anymore, his father was his medicine when he thought