I’ve been out and about today meeting up with a great friend and colleague. We try to catch up as often as possible although we both live at opposite ends of the country. We share the travel by splitting the difference over where to meet. It means I get an awayday. And a great chance to share our experiences.

One of the things I really love is talking to people about what they have been doing. Finding out what is new in their lives. Or recapping things that have happened since we last met. I’m not asking out of idle curiosity or being nosey. Or to pass the time. I’m asking because everyone has something new to offer in the way they see their world. I can learn so much from what other people are prepared to share. The experiences my friends have can also help me to deal with things I am experiencing. I often find myself wondering what such and such a person would do. Or remembering what they said they had done. It can keep me positive about my life experiences.

And it can also keep me looking for better ways to handle what is happening to me. When someone takes the time to share the events of their life I can apply their wisdom to my issues. It’s like getting a great gift. One that never wears out. Because I can go back to that conversation time and again. I can let myself reflect on it more than once. And I can compared the shared experience with others that people have been able to share with me. After all there are many things in life that we all go through the same. I think of birth, death, taxes, work, relationships, money, fear and threat etc. If I can benefit from the knowledge of these that people have shared with me I can face my own personal experiences knowing it will be ok in the end.

So do you share your experiences? Or do you tell yourself that no one will want to know what has happened to you? Or how you coped? And got through it? I encourage you to share. You have learned life’s wisdom the hard way. Try to let others have a slightly easier path – if they choose to take it – by letting them know what you have learned along the way. Remeber that sharing is good for all of us.

Day 839 of my blogging challenge