"When you pick up the phone and the person on the other end really needs someone to talk to and you make a difference to a life - I am reminded why I do it."
I am still a volunteer for nightline.
Nightline has been one of the greatest things (if not the greatest thing) i have done in my time at University. I have juggled my degree alongside many college and uni commitments, but I love the organisation so much that I regularly find to do many duties and go down the office during the week.
As Nightliners, we are a really tight knit group of people and it seems we are all very like minded. With this in mind it is no shock that I have made many of my closest friends within the organisation.
Sometimes when I am tired or struggling with my own problems, I wonder why I bother to stay up all night when i have academic and other commitments the next day, but then when you pick up the phone and the person on the other end really needs someone to talk to and rant their feelings to, and you make a difference to a life - I am reminded why I do it.
Nightline has become a part of me... one which I will find very hard to let go of.
Get involved.
-Anonymous, Durham Nightline