I was sitting on the top of the steps in the kitchen of my childhood home when I heard the all too familiar Apple “Ding” sound effect echoing from my phone. After a long day, my eyes had no appetite for another “special offer” from an overzealous retail company, or a message from a professor about this weeks class assignments, or even a message from my beloved supervisors at any one of my three jobs, and especially not a “Meet local singles now!” matchmaker advertisement that would only exacerbate my current record-breaking run of singleness; all I wanted was a cup of green tea and one of those mini eclairs left over from yesterday’s Easter feast that I had been fantasizing about since lunch time. Naturally, my Generation-Z instincts forced me to tap the little white envelope on my iPhone’s home screen anyway, despite the urge to throw the entire device remorselessly across the room.
And then I saw it–well, part of it, anyway. The contact read “HSN Recruiting Team” and the preview, “Dear Gina: We appreciate your interest…” and I braced myself for another soft rejection similar to the one I had received just hours before from Bright House. The dark-and-twisty masochistic side of me decided to read it anyway. Over. And over. And over and over until I knew what the next sentence said before I even finished the last one; until I knew it was real.
Dear Gina:
We appreciate your interest in HSN and would like to invite you to schedule an interview for the TV Productions – Summer 2013 Internship position…
That’s when it hit me; I knew I would want to remember that moment for the rest of my life. That precise moment was where my dreams met reality on an entirely new level. Grounding myself with the reality of the fact that I am still one of many, I let myself bask in the moment. Out of potentially thousands, I was chosen; I advanced to the next level, not because of who I know, but because of who I am (and who God is, but that’s a given), for the first time ever. And whether I get the position or not, I will move forward knowing that at the very least, I have what it takes to get noticed.
These years of hard work and unrelenting determination, they might just pay off.
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