3 Reasons My Friends Don’t Support My Medium Writing
They probably don't apply to you.
They probably don't apply to you.
I have thought about this for a good while.
In some ways, I believed that after I started writing more and more, and especially after I started working with Medium, all my friends would rally around me and multiply my success exponentially.
But it didn't happen. I know it may just be an oversight, and it will all self-correct soon. But I think I know better.
I ask myself why, and I can only think of three possible reasons.
I wonder, “Is this only me, or is this the case with anyone else?”
My writing is not good. My friends are either snickering or weeping about it, but in the end, are too nice to tell me.
Crab in the bucket syndrome. This is the old tale of how a crab in a bucket by himself could climb out, but several crabs in the same bucket would keep each other down in the bucket, unable to get out.
I haven't had the guts to ask them yet. It's all my fault. They may or may not support me, but it's incumbent on me to draw their attention to it. Even if they guffaw. I could possibly wear my fake nose and glasses when I tell them so they wouldn't know it was me.
Only the last one is a quick fix.
I'm not sure if this resonates with anyone else or not.
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