{"id":2540,"date":"2010-11-08T08:45:03","date_gmt":"2010-11-08T12:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.communify.me\/newvinegrowing\/?p=2540"},"modified":"2019-06-07T13:41:22","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T17:41:22","slug":"im-grateful-for-people-ive-never-met","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.communify.me\/newvinegrowing\/im-grateful-for-people-ive-never-met\/","title":{"rendered":"I'm grateful for: people I've never met"},"content":{"rendered":"

A guest post from the ever-fabulous Lara Zielin<\/a>:<\/em>
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Scott Neumyer wrote a guest blog post for LaraWrites.com, in which he wore a Hello Kitty T-shirt Lara bought him.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nI probably spend too much time online and, if my increasingly strobe-light-like brain is any indication, it might not be doing me as much good as I think. But I will say one thing about the experience: being online, and utilizing social media tools in particular, has connected me to some amazing people I never would have been able to meet otherwise.
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\nTake my friend Scott Neumyer<\/a> for example. We became friends on Facebook and pretty soon I saw Scott posting pictures after his workouts. Sweaty, gritty, in-your-face pictures. And I was all like, what\u2019s this guy\u2019s deal<\/em>? It turns out that Scott was on a weight loss mission and he was making that journey extremely public. He figured that sharing his experiences would help keep him accountable and might inspire some other folks along the way. I loved the raw honesty of all his posts, not to mention the physical transformation I was seeing. Scott eventually did a guest post for me connecting weight loss struggles with writing struggles<\/a>. They\u2019re not so very different, see.
\nThen Scott surprised me again. He started blogging about debt. He started a site called Mad at Debt<\/a> and, for his first post, told a heart-wrenching story about hiding $40,000 in credit card debt from his wife.
\nOnce again, I was floored. Scott\u2019s post was so totally open and honest. I could only read it, wipe away the tears, and think: this guy is fearless<\/em>. He\u2019ll talk about anything. He\u2019ll bare his soul. He\u2019ll put it all out there.
\nTo me, it\u2019s beyond inspiring. It makes me grateful that people like Scott exist \u2013 people who not only overcome their obstacles, but have hearts big enough to share their journeys with others.
\nThanks, Scott. I\u2019m grateful for you, and all the many people like you I\u2019ve never met. Not officially, in person anyway. But I feel like I know you. And my life is so much better for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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