What if 89 people showed up with you?
I'm still thinking about something that happened at the sit-in at Pcon.
There was a woman there who did not know about the organized sit in and had decided to come and sit outside and protest on her own.
I think that's a hard and scary thing to do.
And I keep wondering what it must feel like to get yourself ready to do something hard alone and then find 89 OTHER PEOPLE there with you, people you've never met, people who don't even know you, but are there with you.
To me, that is magic. To me, that is beautiful.
There have been many times I felt I was doing hard things alone, and many times when an extra pair of hands or even just the presence of others for moral support would have helped. And I did those things alone.
And now I had the opportunity to be part of the magic unexpected backup for someone else. And that makes me happy and proud.
I can't do that for everybody. Everybody can't do it for me. But just to do it now and then is huge.
This is real magic.
There was a woman there who did not know about the organized sit in and had decided to come and sit outside and protest on her own.
I think that's a hard and scary thing to do.
And I keep wondering what it must feel like to get yourself ready to do something hard alone and then find 89 OTHER PEOPLE there with you, people you've never met, people who don't even know you, but are there with you.
To me, that is magic. To me, that is beautiful.
There have been many times I felt I was doing hard things alone, and many times when an extra pair of hands or even just the presence of others for moral support would have helped. And I did those things alone.
And now I had the opportunity to be part of the magic unexpected backup for someone else. And that makes me happy and proud.
I can't do that for everybody. Everybody can't do it for me. But just to do it now and then is huge.
This is real magic.