People Are Power
How a single, random phone call changed my life forever
6 years ago, I agreed to take a phone call from a stranger.
I had no idea what to expect.
An interview? A business pitch? An article idea?
Was this guy normal?
I paced around my queen-sized mattress, trodding across the hopefully-clean hotel carpet. Big drifts of snow were plopped randomly across the parking lot outside the window like some half-done impressionist painting.
It’s funny how life works. If the call had been offered a week earlier or a week later, I would have never taken it. I’d have been at my own dining room table, shoveling down spaghetti with Kate.
The appointment came right on time.
Although I didn’t know it yet, the second that phone rang, my life would change forever.
I pressed the little green button, and we started chatting.
5 minutes.
10 minutes.
30 minutes.
An hour later, we were still going. Complete strangers, at opposite ends of the country — we become old friends in 60 minutes.
“We should make this a habit,” I said.
