17 January 2019 — GOSSIP

To not gossip about others is my pact with myself. ‘Gossiping’ seems to be a past time we all indulge in. How many times when we overhear snippets of other people’s conversation do they appear to be talking negatively about a shared acquaintance?

So WHY? WHY? WHY? do we have this need to gossip. What is lacking in our ‘selves’ that makes us feel better about running someone else down? There is a distinct difference, I feel, between voicing one’s feelings about someone who has upset us in some way and between finding fault in them. And when I remember the adage with which I was brought up — What You Don’t Like in Others are those things YOU DON’T LIKE IN YOURSELF — the MIRRORING EFFECT- I feel very uncomfortable and try to persuade myself that I’m nothing like the person/s who have upset me.