It is easy to get your feelings hurt and to feel a sense of betrayal when you are striving to do things that will propel your career and your life to the next level and the people closest to you don’t show any support. It stings even more so when the unsupportive one’s are family because family are the one’s that you would expect to always be in your corner. But the reality is that there’s no family and friends handbooks that says that you absolutely have to support your friends creative and business endeavors. It would be nice but it’s not something they are obligated to do.
It’s interesting how many people I hear say that they get more support for the things they do in their career from strangers or even from associates who are not quite your friends. Why is that? How is it that we can support total strangers but then turn to family and other loved ones and throw our hands up and just do nothing but wish them well.
I get more support from you guys here and from the people in the AuthorTube Community over on YouTube where I have a channel than I do from my own mother, my sister, or anyone else in my family. I’m not saying that I don’t have some close friends that are also in the creative field so they get it and they are extremely supportive but most friends don’t get it. I’m not going to lie and say that it’s not hurtful to know that I don’t even have the support of my mother and my sister and I suppose I should be used to it by now but I am human.
Having said all of that, and having acknowledged the hurts of a creative entrepreneur, I don’t have time to live in that hurt for too long. Regardless of whether my own family supports me or not I have too many things I’m trying to do and too many people that I hope to inspire to worry about that for too long.
I guess I’m just writing this post for those of you out there who may not be creative or pursuing careers in the creative industry but have family members or friends who are. Check to make sure that you support them. Make sure that you genuinely cheer them on and let them know that you believe in them. It goes a long way to hear words of encouragement and support form people who are actually supposed to be in your corner and have your back. Don’t discount their work and their passions by not acknowledging them. Their career matters every bit as much as yours.
Until next time… #BeMindful #BeGrateful #BeEncouraged
Jimmetta Carpenter
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Oh yeah, out of my circle of friends and families, I think only two people continually read my posts, so I totally get this. But that’s the writing life, am I right? Thanks for this post!
I have been married to a wonderful man since 1984. He loves me and encourages me and even tries to read at least some of what I write and look at my pictures but truth is he is a music teacher and very auditory; and word and pictures are not his thing. I on the other hand, go to some of his concerts but really only enjoy the ones he isn’t in and can sit with me at. So he had music friends and I have writers groups and that’s ok.