Congratulations on finding the bins! Since I almost can't believe the happy ending reading it, I can't imagine what it was like to live it. I don't know if anyone actually jumps with joy, but maybe you screamed. I don't care, even if you have your priorities in order, if that's not the highlight of your year as many years as not, you have a hell of a life. Heartache and frustration are so much more common than happy endings!
It must also have been great joy to be able to tell your family or learn of it from them. Lately, someone called telling me she had horrible news, and when I actually heard what it was, I was quite relieved that it merely sucked and no one was dead or seriously sick. I wonder if the opposite can happen, if good news can fail to live up to the billing? This brings up the topic if people should be prepped for good news and bad news at all, or if one should just launch in. I would think bad news at least should be flagged. Perhaps signaling there's a good surprise, however, takes some of the surprise out of it, and I think surprise is an inherently happy thing. "Shock" is the unexpected and bad to me, and "surprise" more what makes life worth living.
The other issue is just that giving news straightaway, even when we want to, can be difficult for some reason. There can be an element of embarrassment to it, of knowing that you're going to get a strong reaction, even if it will be positive.
It's funny that you don't think titling your work is one of your strengths. I have thought to myself several times how good your newsletter titles are. They don't overreach and are always interesting. I've never had one fall flat for me.
Congratulations on finding the bins! Since I almost can't believe the happy ending reading it, I can't imagine what it was like to live it. I don't know if anyone actually jumps with joy, but maybe you screamed. I don't care, even if you have your priorities in order, if that's not the highlight of your year as many years as not, you have a hell of a life. Heartache and frustration are so much more common than happy endings!
It must also have been great joy to be able to tell your family or learn of it from them. Lately, someone called telling me she had horrible news, and when I actually heard what it was, I was quite relieved that it merely sucked and no one was dead or seriously sick. I wonder if the opposite can happen, if good news can fail to live up to the billing? This brings up the topic if people should be prepped for good news and bad news at all, or if one should just launch in. I would think bad news at least should be flagged. Perhaps signaling there's a good surprise, however, takes some of the surprise out of it, and I think surprise is an inherently happy thing. "Shock" is the unexpected and bad to me, and "surprise" more what makes life worth living.
The other issue is just that giving news straightaway, even when we want to, can be difficult for some reason. There can be an element of embarrassment to it, of knowing that you're going to get a strong reaction, even if it will be positive.
It's funny that you don't think titling your work is one of your strengths. I have thought to myself several times how good your newsletter titles are. They don't overreach and are always interesting. I've never had one fall flat for me.