I Will Not Share Good News… I Will Not Share….
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree of Truth.
I close my eyes tightly and will everything to go away as I chant. I Â will not share good news…I will not share good news…I will not share good news….
That’s right! I have a new mantra!
In the past 24 hours, I’ve heard from two old friends I hadn’t heard from much in the past year. I don’t really include them as friends any  longer but they’re still colleagues and I have to deal with them on a  professional basis ever so often. Both called me for work-related  reasons, quickly  dispensed  with  the  discussion  of statutes and regulations, and then asked the inevitable.
“So what  ever  happened  about  your  problem  with ?â€
Hmmm,  okay.  Ironic  that  they’re  calling  now,  but something  did  happen  concerning  my  problem  about . Something good. I’d prefer to keep the conversation on more  of  a professional  level but they push and push and part of me just wants to say that see, I wasn’t an idiot for the way I dealt with .
I hem and haw. I’m not really sure I want to share the great stuff or explain why or how I’ve resolved my problem with . I’m still thinking through it, not quite believing it, just settling into the goodness of it. But a little self-validation of my decisions seems in order.
After repeated  “So what’s  going  on?† I finally give just a little of the good news. Not full blast. Not the history. Just in a nutshell where  things stand and the decisions I’ve made.
The conversation  played  out  almost  the  same  with both friends, 24  hours  apart,  1000  miles  apart,  a  year since our last discussion of  anything remotely related to my problem with . I delivered a hopeful but some- what watered down version of my good news.
The first friend: “Well, that won’t last very long. Just wait until you fall off your pedestal. The people who ad- mire you now will be gone faster than you can blink an eye and you’ll be all alone.â€
Huh???
The second friend: “Well, that won’t last very long. I was in a situation like that once and I tried the resolve it just like you are now and it was frigging miserable. You’re just going to end up hurt and angry like I did.â€
Again, huh???
The funny  thing  is,  I’ve  avoided  both  people  for much of the  past year because they were always asking about my concerns about and I didn’t want to hear their snide remarks when things were problematic for me. Now that things are excellent in this area, I don’t want their wet blankets. Why do some people have the need to
call your hopes into the light just so they can take shots at them?
I will  not  share  good  news…I  will  not  share  good news….