Dedicated to all the decision-makers

Post numero 3. 
This post I want to dedicate to the persons who made decisions for me, that would later turn out to change my life forever. 
I think I was only twelve or eleven years old and I had written a short-story for school. I had always enjoyed writing things and the story I had written that day was the longest until then. Ofcourse it was only five, or six pages long but I was very, very proud of it. I don't even remember what it was about, but I do know there was a princess and a forced marriage envolved (even then I was a little over-dramatic!) and ofcourse the classic, happy ending where the prince saves the princess and they live happily ever after. 
Anyhow, no one had ever read one of my stories because I was too shy to let my parents read it and my friends back then were only interested in ponies and scoobydoo (some kind of braiding system) - which was totally normal. 
So the first person who read something of me, was my teacher back then. She was the first decision-maker. The comment she wrote was the one that changed everything. 
She said that it was the best thing she had ever read that came from one of her students and she told me to keep writing, envolve, get better and just... to become a writer. After that, she made me read it out loud for the whole class, who were all very positive (accept for the one's I hated, but they didn't really matter to me). That teacher became the beginning of everything and I'm still grateful, even tough I haven't seen her in seven years. 
The second decision was made by one of my best friends/niece. She showed me a writers-site, which I fell in love with immediately. My first stories appeared on that site. Ofcourse they were trashy, badly written and the plot was incredible predictable, but still, I had some readers who encouraged me to write another story. And another one. And another one after that. 
And with each, new story my writing became better, my characters became extremely loveable and my plot became so suprising that my readers kept asking for more. So that's what I did. I wrote one story after the other and the amount of readers grew every time. 

So thanks to those two decision-makers I am where I am right now: writing a story, for which I have big plans (Yes, publish it). And if it wouldn't be for those two, I might even had given up on the one thing I love the most right now and which I want to make my job of, one day. 
So the moral is - yes, there's a moral - open up for those who want to help you and encourage you. For once, let them make decisions for you. 
They might just end up to be the biggest, greatest decisions ever made in your entire life.