My perspective of life is quite different, I'm the kind of person that believes in growing in silent because I live a life of solitude. Not just that, the world we live is perceived differently by we humans that live in it. People mostly misinterpret others intention, when all we want is just someone to inform about something good that happened. It might not necessarily be about seeking to be congratulated but wanting to speak of the good news.
It is natural for we humans to want to inform people close to us when we experience something good but I have had some unpleasant experience about telling the wrong people about such things. We humans needs to understand that, not everyone wants what is best for us and this dictate how the good news is perceived or what happens we inform people.
Some years back, when I was still fully vested in the mining game, it was quite profitable in those days. I invited some of my friends to join a mining platform called notcoin. It was trending in those days, I was mining it consistently. It was not because I believed in the project fully but I enjoyed the numbers game to an extent, I was always wanting to climb fast through the levels ladder. At some point, when the listing of coin seems to be taking too long, a lot of my friends stopped mining.
There was this specific friend of mine that happens to be my colleague from school, I invited him to join also but he stopped mining after awhile. After a month, I went back to him to inform about the news I heard about the coin. Eventually he decided to continue mining by the time the coin got listed, we both got our allocation. I was still the same person that informed him about how to go about the listing date and everything.
The first question he asked was, what is the amount of coins you were given? I was happy to inform him, his reaction was very strange, he sounded upset. I was expecting him tell me his but he never did. I knew that my coin allocation was definitely more than his, though we both stated mining the coin at the same time but at some point the guy quitted. The coin got listed, we transfered it to an exchange, we converted to USDT.
He then started pestering about how much I got from it, telling him was not a big deal but something just felt wrong about it. So I told him, if you tell me yours, I will tell you what you need to know. The reaction I got next was not funny, he got upset and started saying things like, I'm trying to showoff, this and that. It was like a movie that day but that was not the first time experiencing such a thing.
The fact is that, there are people who feel bad when they hear about the good things happening in others life, it is something called envy. Believe me, you don't want to share your good news with an envious person, people with this trait are capable of lot of things. This is why I keep my good news to myself. So if anything good occurs in my life, the only people I tell are my parents and that is all. Most especially my mom.
My dad doesn't talk much but my mom, she loves to gist. If she should experience anything, no matter how little it is, she would narrate every single detail. Apart from that, when I'm in trouble also, before informing my dad, she is always the first to know. I don't even need to tell her, just by looking at my face, she would figure it out. How would I feel if she shared her own good news with others instead of me? it doesn't really matter because she has the right to inform whoever she wants and so do I.
This write-up was inspired by weekly featured content titled Good news in hive learners community.
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