That’s two years, eight months, and 28 days. One post a day, 1,000 days in a row.
To be honest, I didn’t feel like celebrating. I didn’t even feel like pointing it out. But if you don’t reflect on the big moments as they happen, chances are, you won’t reflect on them at all.
Despite there being nothing magical about this number coming and going, magic has been on my mind. Yesterday, I went to the Warner Bros. Harry Potter Studio Tour. Ten years, eight movies, thousands of people—and hundreds of thousands of props, costumes, set designs, visual effects, and animatronics. The magic behind the magic? It’s just humans. Humans showing up every day.
What I found most staggering is that, time and again, they spent months of effort on work that would ultimately be abandoned. “If the werewolf suit is too hard to control in its seventh iteration, we’ll use more visual effects.” It takes guts and a special kind of perseverance to endure plot twists like this—and all for perhaps two minutes of film material.
This blog is a bit like that. On most days, the work goes nowhere in particular. But even if the highlights are far and few between, in the end, they add up. The only reason they can, however, is that every day, some work happens.
The magic behind the magic is that there is no magic—and if you ask me, that’s the best magic of all.