What is the purpose of sharing something?
Is my sharing to control others, however benignly: to educate, advocate, warn - or show off? To introduce a concept or event and explain it, or my perspective on it? To point out a window, so to speak, and describe all that I think my listener or reader needs to know about what can be seen from it?
Or is my sharing to convey esteem for the listener or reader, build our relationship, and learn? To point out the window, briefly share why I think something I perceive from it is worth sharing - something revealing, beautiful or important - and invite the other to look through the window and draw her or his own conclusions and, perhaps, to grace me with her or his perspective?
