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How One Person You Have Never Met Can Change Your Life
Here I am, writing the very last post of my 30-day daily writing challenge. I never thought I could pull off something like that. In the last month, I have written at least 45,000 words.
To me, that’s a hell of a lot of words.
The time to analyze the experiment and draw lessons from it will come later when I am back from my vacation. Today’s post is about something different. It is a gratitude letter to someone I have never met in person, but whose support during the past 30 days was absolutely incredible.
Thank you, Jim Farina for being there for me during that journey.
When I announced my intention to put out a daily Medium post for 30 days straight in a writing group I’m a part of — Jim was the first to cheer me on. I remember him saying that now I was “held accountable” and that he would be reading and clapping for those stories.
It was nice to receive such encouragement. But I didn’t anticipate how much he would actually support me.
From day one, Jim clapped for every single one of my daily stories. Every single day. Exactly 49 claps. Always.
He also let me know that he’s reading those stories on his morning commute to work. Because of the different time zones between Poland and the US, by the…
