Day 7: Honesty and Follow-through

I'm not sure how to categorize this.  Maybe by the end of my rant, it will come to me.

About 8 months ago, this friend of mine (who moved far away) got a Google Glass.  I was pretty impressed. And jealous.  Although my involvement with technology and technology integration in my work has declined over the last few years, technology really is what I love about my job.  But the catch about this technology is that it isn't available to everyone; you can only get a Google Glass by invitation.  At the time, I told her how jealous I was and she mentioned, in an offhand manner, that if she ever got invitations to hand out, she would let me know.

Today, I got invited to be part of the Google Glass community.

Now, I'm not thankful for the Glass (yet) since I have received nothing but the invitation.  What I am thankful for is that my friend values me enough, respects her promises, remembers, appreciates the work I do, that she would give me one of her invitations.  She received only three.

Too often we make promises, say things we don't really mean or don't intend to follow through on just to be nice.  This is not the case for this friend and I respect, appreciate, value that so much.  She is a great model of what I want to be.  This is what I'm thankful for.

So thank you, Meg.  I'm about to be one of the newest members of the Google Glass community.