15d ago

Update: was all set to quit my Saturday market booth after a lady in Boise said one sentence to me

That Dana thing hits different because she wasn't just being nice, she was showing up. Every week. Without you knowing. That's the part that gets me. We think nobody notices when we're grinding away at something small, but people do. They just don't always say it. A guy at my local bakery told me once he kept the lights on for two years waiting for one regular to come back. She finally did. So yeah, one sentence can flip everything, but only because weeks and weeks of quiet loyalty were sitting behind it.