Blessed

Couple of months ago, I upload which I think is my first serious paper/article inside the online magazine Roda da Fortune. And even though now I will write it in a completely different way, I believed it not to be as bad as my auto-demolishing self-esteem wanted me to think. The paper itself had not a significant impact. Not even yesterday, when I remembered in the page that we had our little space in Academia Edu, motivated by the success my friend L had with her first and beautiful article. 

But this morning curiosity made me open the page, just to check if yesterday's sharing had any kind of repercussion. Truth be told, it did not. Nevertheless, there was something waiting for me to notice. An inner message at Academia Edu. I could not figure anything else out than it was going to be another random notification from the settings. 

It was not.

I had a message written in perfect Spanish from Manouchehr Moshtagh, an scholar I personally idolize and nearly worship for his work on Persian Militar and War Arts. He wrote me that he really enjoyed my paper about the Shahnameh. And I nearly cried. Barely I typed a coherent answer to one of the persons I most admire in this Persian world. And my heart bursted between my ribs. 

Who cares about the impact now? I am just feeling blessed someone like Moshtagh noticed me, my  humble project and my Shahnameh's commentaries. And yes, it makes me feel extremely happy. 

Maybe I am doing something right after all. 

Oh, won't you come with me where the ocean meets the sky?

And as the clouds roll by, we'll sing the Song of the Sea.