"Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves." -Larry King.

Do you believe in reaching for the moon?

Allow me to share with you one of the best e-mails I have ever read in my life:
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From: Eclectic Eccentricity
To: pungshalene@gmail.com
Date: Nov 10, 2008 7:45 PM
Subject: Your blog post - How Many Ways necklace

Hi!

My name is Lucy and I own Eclectic Eccentricity jewellery :) One of the girls here came across your blog post (we have a list of referrers in our website stats) and your post really moved me! I'd love to send you the "How Many Ways" necklace as a gift :) All I would need is the mailing address to send it to.

Have a wonderful day!

Lucy Averill
www.eclecticeccentricity.co.uk

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Needless to say, I gave a great big gasp of utter surprise and joy, shouting all over the house, "OH MY GOODNESS, OH MY GOODNESS, OH MY GOODNESS!!!! MUMMY, MUMMY, THE MOST UNBELIEVABLE THING HAS HAPPENED!"
I know, I know. Here sits a woman girl about to turn 20 in a mere 19 days, and yet she is reduced to a bubbling, bawling (tears of joy!) child by a short (but largely incredible) e-mail.
This is a sort of unbelievable, dumb luck that is unimaginable - yet I so badly want to believe it's true - that the owner of a legendary online gift shop really wants to send me the most beautiful necklace in the world just because I dedicated 648 words to it on a blog that is, for the most part, a teardrop in the Pacific Ocean of websites.
I so badly want to believe that the necklace will really arrive in my hands (safely) by the time my birthday ambles on to the calendar.
I so badly want to believe that this is one of those things that are just so good and pure and wonderful about this world, this world that I love so much -- that there really are people like Lucy Averill who just decide to fulfil some stranger's dream, a stranger who lives halfway across the world (the shop is based in England) out of the goodness of her heart.
Call me a drama queen, but the International Love Pendant has become more than just a pretty necklace to me now, it's become a symbol for what I believe and love about the world that I live in -- that despite all the wars and famines and poverty and global warming, there is still something fundamentally good about people.
It's the small things like this, that remind me (and whoever is reading this) just how wonderful the world really is! A world worth fighting for, a world that we must not give up on or destroy, a world filled with people who all deserve a chance to be happy.
So, to Lucy Averill, and all the people out there who are like her...
Thank you!!! :)
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*Edit (4.01am, early bits of 11th November, e-mail reply from Lucy, which I want to post up here to remember it forever!! :D):
From: Eclectic Eccentricity
To: pungshalene@gmail.com
Date: Nov 11, 2008 3:52 AM
Subject: RE: Your blog post - How Many Ways necklace
Hi Sha-Lene,
Yes, very serious! I was really very touched by your blog post and I'd love to send you one. Will have it in the post to you tomorrow!
I'm so pleased it's going to such a wonderful home. I get really attached to every single piece of jewellery I make so it's fab to know it will be so well loved!
Thanks so much!
Lucy x
-------Lucy Averill www.eclecticeccentricity.co.uk