An Open Letter

I saw an Iron 4 player offering coaching on Discord, and so I asked to be coached a few days ago. We messaged a bit, and they seemed pretty cool, so we planned to play. Today we did, and they were actually really knowledgeable and fun to play with, but just had a ton of performance anxiety. We played a few games and then spent like two hours just talking and bantering. We plan to play again tomorrow, and I saw a lot of myself in them, but from a parallel of a fully different person having different life experiences. I’m glad I reached out to a fully foreign interaction. 20 seconds. All it takes.