I mean when you make something, I think most people
I don’t know. Maybe if it’s like your second or third thing, you’re expecting, you’re thinking about what the audience is going to think. But when you make something the first time, you’re just thinking about making it, you know. And so for me writing the book was like, “Oh, I’m going to write this book. It’s going to be fun. I’m going to make a book. I’m going to give it so some people and that’s it.” And so any reaction beyond just like, “Thanks for the book,” to me was — really blew my mind.
And when it started getting into like, “Hey, I read your book to my kid.” Like the first time someone told me that they read this book to their kid, I remember just being like [makes noise], like it’s a kids’ book. I wrote a kids’ book for children, but I didn’t consider that. Like I didn’t consider someone being like, “I took the most vulnerable person I could find that I love the most in the entire world and I shared with them this message that you wrote.” And you’re like, “Whoa! That is the heaviest thing I can imagine.”
And so everything on top of that, everything where it’s like, you know, someone writing me a letter and telling me that I inspired them or someone telling me, you know, whether it’s, “I read this to my kid.” Or like, “I’m in college and I know that this is a kids’ book, but this book really inspired me.” Or, “I live in this country that you’ve never been to.” Or like even crazier like, “I’m going through this really hard time.” Or, “My husband has this terminal illness and your book has really helped us.” Like those kind of things I mean it’s immeasurable, you know.
