Up: [[Sharing]] Created: 2023-08-28 ## Why Share? 1. Accountability for myself 2. Feels more meaningful and I’m more likely to do it, to work at it if preparing it for others’ eyes. Adair Lara says not sharing is like trying to tell yourself you're a good cook without ever inviting anyone to dinner. 3. Helps me to find my people. I wouldn’t have met Joanne or Deb if I hadn’t had my blog. 4. I’m at an age and stage of life where there is some wisdom and maturity worth communicating. Maybe it’s even a responsibility for this stage. 5. My age group doesn’t get heard from that often. I can model what continued involvement in the world can look like. 6. I would feel purposeful which is not important now but might be in the future. (Similar to #2) 7. Sharing completes a cycle. This is [[Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer]]’s idea that paying attention/mindfulness is one long huge inhale and eventually you have to let it out. I believe that, can feel the discomfort of the nonstop in-breath and then the held breath. 8. Connections and synchronicities may be even more visible. 9. I’ve long been fascinated by [['Year Of' Books]] and self-exploration. That isn’t going away so it means I likely need to do it! Good reasons to share. They explain why I haven’t been able to completely let the sharing idea go. There are also a pile of reasons not to share, although I should qualify that by saying not to share in the public ways I can think of. ## Why NOT Share? 1. The world is drowning in information. We need less, not more. 2. Sharing puts focus on doing when I am just learning how to be. And Be is how I want to live the rest of my life. 3. Sharing in any form automatically has me thinking about the receiver. That will constrain my creation and put the emphasis on other people’s needs and desires when that is exactly what I don’t want anymore. 4. I don’t need to make money sharing but I always end up spending money to share and I don’t want that. 5. I don’t know how to do personal without it negatively affecting my own inner work. 6. We’re a society of over-sharers. Me too! Look at me! That’s a club I don’t want to join. 7. Sharing requires reciprocity. I don’t want commitment, including the obligation to promote someone else’s work. 8. The machine around sharing in any public form sickens me. It is so manipulative, grasping, greedy. There is so much noise. 9. I have a suspicion that sharing may just be a distraction for me, another way to avoid doing my real work. Compelling reasons on both sides.