Show-Off Paradox - Do it or Dont

In our life we always get into this phase where you either show off things that you have or achieved or you hide. And that leads to problems around our life.

We either show what we can do or don't or we just move on from those problems. But the paradox never leaves us and it would change our life in many ways.

So how does it work? In this post, I am going to discuss the same.

You Show off, They hate you

You win something, you feel like sharing with others. You done something good, you feel like sharing something. And that approach keeps on growing. And you feel like sharing every little thing that happens in your world.

People don't mind you sharing good things in your life. But they would surely hate you when you tend to show off. People hate if anything is overdone and now a days with internet issues, everything is being done a lot. So they tend to hate any show-off.

You don't show off, they think you're useless

I have personally experienced this side. Like I don't do the show off my money and also don't show off my other achievements. And that has made me lose a lot of people. Because they think not doing the show off is sign of loser person.

But that is because they think being relevant is necessary in this world by showing everything you have. So sometimes you don't know what to show off and what not to show to other people. That understanding is not easy as well.

Balance, doesn't solve it either

I think once we realize both side we feel like the balance is something we may feel like chase. But solving that for a balance is not easy. Because we become too much politically correct and that's not a good thing.

I feel balance is hard. We learn from other people around us. If the other people are not showing things off then it's better to not show off. And that would be also one more thing to do and learn from.

How do you handle showing off in your life?

I think I failed at balancing this. And also suffered from both sides like both showing and not showing off. So I feel that there is a balance or say even the phase where everything properly settles and moves around.

I wonder how you guys handle this sort of the feeling where you don't want to show or want to show off without affecting yourself from the consequences?