The friend who drove two hours to see your show didn’t need a reason. You were the reason.
GRATITUDE
WHAT THIS MEANS
People give away time for the things they care about, and time is the one resource nobody can get more of. A long drive to watch something short is not really about the event; the event was simply where you happened to be. Looking for a further explanation is a way of dodging the plain one. Somebody wanted to be in the room while you did your thing.
Text that friend and say you know what the drive cost them. Then put one of their things in your own calendar this month and go. Turning up is the only version that counts.
A QUESTION TO SIT WITH
Who travelled a long way just to watch you perform?
MORE IN GRATITUDE & PRESENCE
- What your little sister will remember isn’t the gift. It’s the afternoon you actually played with her.
- You’ll walk into a house years from now that smells like your grandma’s and stop in your tracks. Notice it now.
- Complaints are loud and gratitude is quiet, so you have to go looking for the quiet one on purpose.
Free, with nothing to buy inside it.