I absolutely love meeting two kids of people. The first is anyone, literally anyone who is good at what they do. Like spent their whole adult lives doing one thing and then they are still doing that one thing. These people are my favourite because they make such good conversationalists (about their chosen topic) and their enthusiastic enough about it to suffer under my barrage of questions. And man do I like asking these types of people questions! It can be literally anyone: mechanics, doulas, RMTs, and scientists.
The second type of person I love meeting is people who try and make a difference for others. Now this doesn’t have to be high and mighty, not for nothing I would love to meet the former president Mr. Barak Obama, but even people who are not famous on the world stage but are always trying to make a change, those are my people.
Espiecielly now where I feel that the billionaires (they shouldn’t exist) and corporations (they are not people!) are just out to make as much money as possible. To an extent that our world is burning and at a precipice of climate catastrophe. But I digress.

I have recently had the pleasure of meeting one person who fulfills both of my favourite type of people, Jon from Affinity Immuno. Jon is a legit scientist, like work in a lab and create vials worth of protein, HGH kits, and monoclonal antibodies. Honestly, I don’t really know what all of those things do, (I was terrible in science in high school) but it was cool listening to him talk technical and I felt like I could hang in the conversation.
But what really made the conversation stand out was Jon’s “Why”. Why he does his work. Why he got into science in the first place. And you want to know the reason? It was because he wants to make a positive impact on our species as a whole. Because one of the best ways to improve lives is science. Thanks to germ theory, modern sanitation and (again!) monoclonal antibodies literally millions of people’s lives have been saved. But not only that the quality of our lives has improved so significantly that it’s hard to believe. Here we are, in the west sitting in our homes with running water and electricity. Driving on streets that literal humans made. For our cars, that again and you guessed it, other humans made. It’s absolutely crazy to think that I am a human and yet on the backs of all others who have lived before, I am able to live a life that is so comfortable with modern medicine, that I can grow to be oh so very old.
My grandfather passed away at 94 years old. That man was born before there were computers and died with an I phone. All of that humans did, and it’s mainly for people like Jon who have worked their whole lives for the betterment of others. It was truly an honor to meet him.