No matter how skillful you are, if no one pays attention to your work, even just one, the work you do may die on its own weight.
Though this thought has been speaking to me when my freelancing gained momentum, it didn’t really impress me as much until I read this blog post entitled The benefit of the doubt.
Here goes a part of it:
We can’t possibly know precisely what’s inside the book or the box or the bottle before we buy it for the first time. We take meds or go to the movies in anticipation of an outcome, and we give the producer the benefit of the doubt (or we don’t go, because the doubt is too much for us to handle.)
And we do the same thing with people. Who we hire, who we are afraid of, who we marry. We can’t know, not for sure, not until our experience with them is complete.
And we make all of these decisions without a conscious thought.
It only took one person to keep my freelancing momentum going. Not because that person knows what I am really capable of beyond what I said on the work application. But because that person gave me the benefit of the doubt.
And maybe, just because you took the chance of appreciating someone’s work, supporting someone’s business, or hiring them in your team, you made a lot of things possible for them.
Just because you took the chance before you knew them well.
And to everyone I’ve come to meet and know in this short life, those who believed in me before anyone else did, thank you so much.
You are the reason why I show up every day.
Thank you for taking chances. Thank you for giving me the benefit of the doubt.
jessa 