The Message That Reminded Me Why I Do This

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I was scrolling my phone before going to bed the other night…

Yes, I know; I shouldn’t do that.

But there I was, half-asleep, somewhere between TikTok and Instagram, when a text notification lit up my screen.

I saw the name and sighed.
A client. Eastern Europe.
Midnight messages from travelers rarely mean good news.

I stared at it for a few minutes, debating whether to open it.

Curiosity (and responsibility) won.

I must have read it three times before putting the phone down.

I just stared at the darkness of my bedroom for a while.

Because behind that message were the hundreds of invisible details that no one ever sees.

The phone calls, the room allocations, the late-night time zone juggling, the ten variations of a single transfer plan.

All of it reduced to one effortless sentence: “We haven’t had to worry about a thing.”

That’s when it hit me: this is the real work.

Not the spreadsheets, not the systems, not even the sales.

It’s this feeling.

To know that someone out there, right now, is standing in front of a view they never expected, quietly realizing how big the world is…

…because you made it happen.

And for a moment, everything else disappears.

Until next week.

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