How much do you share of yourself with your community?
Is there a boundary? 
Are there just some things that you don't share with the world?
These are some of the questions I have been pondering the past few days.
In this game called life that we are in, we are told to put our best face forward all the time.
I have read stories and posts where people have spoke about things that were not so warm and fuzzy or that did not put their best face forward, but showed that they were human and had problems like everyone else. Or maybe they just wanted to rant about something. Does that reflect poorly on them? Or does it make them more real to you.
So I pose the question....
How much do you share?
Do you only share the good things?
Do you let people know when things arent going your way?
Would you do business with someone who you knew had some hard times and came through them or would you rather go with the ALWAYS UPBEAT~LIFE IS PERFECT~ person who acts as though they have not a care in the world.
I am curious. I am actually asking myself the same questions.
How about when it comes to friends? Do we only want to have friends who never share their struggles or is it okay every once in awhile, to have them cry in their cheerios? I think life would be boring if all the people we were around were perfect all the time. Life is a potpouri of people and it is the different flavors that makes the pot interesting.
I have a friend who has lost a 19 year old to an overdose, her ex husband killed himself, her oldest son wont talk to her and refuses to let her see her grandson and her 2 younger kids BOTH had to have ICD`s put in. I have seen people shun her because of the things that havehappen in her life. People talk, they gossip, yet they don't ever reach out, or try to walk even a step in her shoes. Yet, I wouldn't trade my friendship with her for anything. We know each other better than most.
People seem to run away when people have problems. They make judgements. I know, I have done the same thing.
I am one of those people who like the underdog stories. The stories of people who came from nothing and fought and scraped and struggled their way out of the pit. Those people I can relate to. But I feel I am still digging, I am not out of the pit yet. I like a good success story. But in order to get to the success, they had to go through some failures.
Are you the kind of person who will stand by them through the failures to watch them get to the success? Will you cheer them on from the stands or will you get out there on the track and run with them. Or... will you just change the channel.
How much do you want people to share.... how much do you share of yourself?
Curious in Arkansas,
Susan
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