My truth - I love to share!

I am a supportive person by nature. I genuinely enjoy encouraging others to be and do their best and give praise and encouragement by the truckloads. I see the positive in people and openly celebrate their positives.

In addition I love sharing. I just can’t help but share good things I experience especially with those closest to me. My Mum and girlfriends have been on the receiving end of many text messages, email and phone calls from me excitedly sharing good news or thoughts or sights with them. I love to share the joy I find in everyday things with those around me. I love to share joyous news and accomplishments belonging not only to me but also others.

As you may have read here I was recently offered my very first writing job. This is a very big deal to me and caused a lot of excitement (I am still pinching myself)! Naturally I am keen to share my joyous news with those around me, but it leaves me questioning, where is the line between celebrating an accomplishment with others and ‘bragging’?

I never really thought much about this in the past, however recently it came to light that some people are not overly comfortable with others verbalising their accomplishments. I feel genuine excitement when friends receive good news and want to share it with me. I enjoy a friend sharing their excitement at their child doing well at school or in sporting endeavours, or an accomplishment they themselves have received at work or in their personal life. I genuinely like to celebrate the good, in everyone. I have discovered though, as we are all very different, others may find my habit of openly sharing my news as unnecessary. I do not quite understand why, perhaps it is perceived to others as me ‘bragging’. So I found myself briefly thinking twice about what I share. Do I tell my friends about my excitement of landing my first writing job? Will they be genuinely happy for me or do they find my display of openness in sharing this news as boastful? I looked bragging up in the dictionary and it is essentially described as ‘to talk boastfully, in an arrogant manner’. I am in no way arrogant about my fabulous news, I am very humble and even astounded that SOMEONE likes my writing THAT MUCH. Like I said, I keep pinching myself. I don’t think I am arrogant, but I guess to some that is how I could be perceived.

As a result of this recent knowledge I initially found myself thinking twice about sharing my excitement over my accomplishments with some. Perhaps I should just keep it within my immediate family and let the news spread naturally itself? But then I wouldn’t be true to myself. I love others sharing their excitement with me, in fact I encourage it, so why should I change my own tendency to share? In my quest to be more truthful to myself and to accept my truth, I realise that changing my nature or habits to please or protect others goes against just that. I speak my truth and my truth is I love to share. That is me, being me.

Have you ever felt uncomfortable after sharing exciting news with a friend, noticing they didn’t feel excited or supportive? Do you yourself feel uncomfortable hearing others share their excitement?

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