Suleika Jaouad

And I kept saying to my doctor, like, I don't know how to deal with this level of uncertainty.

I don't know how to keep living my life when I don't know what's going to happen.

And he said to me the thing people often say, which is that you have to live every day as if it's your last.

And it was exhausting to try to make every family dinner meaningful, to try to squeeze the juice out of every single moment.

It was just unsustainable.

And so I had to shift to a gentler mindset of trying to live every day as if it's my first.

I feel the same way.

I adore you.

I've adored you long before I've known you.

And I'm just so honored to get to sit with you and share this time.

I remember exactly.

We didn't actually meet face-to-face.

But you sent me a message.

Yeah.

And I was so surprised and so moved.

And, you know, it's one thing to think a nice thought about someone.

It's another to take the time to actually write a message.

And I think I'm...

just continuously inspired by people who translate thoughtfulness into action and who take the time to reach out without any expectation of anything.

But just to say, I read your book, I listened to your talk, this moved me.