When you think you don't matter

After writing my last post I remembered someone I needed to thank. George Blooston. He was the finance editor of AARP magazine some years back (and my facebook friend) and he put out a call to talk to anyone buried in debt. I answered the call.

I fit the bill and someone interviewed me, wrote it up, all that. But George followed up. "Fax me everything" "show me your debt, your interest rates, everything." I did.

He called me. We talked for two hours. "You'll never get out of debt- not in your lifetime because you won't give up your credit cards."

This was the hard fact I needed to hear and believe. It had to sink in. When it did I got rid of all my credit cards, and as I said before....I'm only a couple of months away from being debt free. I no longer use credit cards and live within my means, on a budget.

George Blooston actually changed my life. I went to Facebook to thank him and found his obituary. I was devastated.

If you ever think you don't matter, or that you cannot change someone's life, just know that you can and you do every day if you take the time to care about someone else, and tell them the cold, hard truth they need to hear. It may be easier to help a stranger. They may never say thank you. They may not get the chance.

I'm not worthy of the help this man gave me. Upon reading his obituary I found out that he was simply marvelous and beloved, multi talented and revered.

George Blooston, 1955-2011

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/washingtonpost/obituary.aspx?n=george-r-blooston&pid=153420731