Dear Felix:

It is good to read your first two paragraphs: you understand what is happening, excellent thinking!

Regarding what the people you bragged to are thinking, and explaining to them that you were bragging- no need for you to explain unless there is a practical reason to explain. For example, if a person you bragged to asks you to talk to your father about hiring him and paying him a large amount of money (believing that your father has way more money than he has), then explain to that person that you bragged and that you regret that you did.

But without a practical reason, don’t bother explaining that you bragged earlier. What they think about you personally doesn’t really matter, does it- I mean other people’s thoughts can’t hurt you, these are only thoughts, not actions.

Plus, just as you think a lot about.. you, other people think a lot about themselves, so you think that they are thinking about you while they are not.

anita