Check In On Your Friends and Family

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This is something I learned this past holiday week. If you live alone, especially if you are in the older generation, please find a friend or family member, or both, even more than one, and make a deal with them like this. Promise to text each other either good morning, or goodnight or both every single day. Then promise if you do not hear from the other person one day, you will check in on them in person or through a neighbor or even the police, to do a wellness check. It can save lives. However, if you promise to do this but you don't do it, what good is it to make the promise in the first place. Be honest and if you cannot follow through, don't make such a deal. Get phone numbers of trusted friends that you can contact if you are not living close enough to physically go check on them. Or even call the police. It is part of their job to do wellness checks.