INFORMATION SHARING

There are things that people think you "need to know", about others, and their timing, motives, and remarkable attention to details are EXTREMELY suspect. "Did you hear...I just thought you'd want to know." REALLY? Why? You haven't seen them in YEARS, and even when you DID see them, they didn't have much to say to you, but they called around and got your number because they thought you'd be delighted to hear about the messy drama that's been going on. REALLY? What the heck for? Sometimes, you just have to say as politely, and emphatically as you can, "Shut up. Please, just stop talking. Now. Right now. The only person you are demeaning and exposing is yourself. Perhaps you should consider repenting. Now". Gossiping is not a public service. There's no way to dress it up and call it "Information Sharing". It is what it is, and it isn't pretty. How is it that people can be so fired up, and practically hunt you down to tell you intimate, scandalous, unpleasant tales about the lives of others, and not realize that the first and ONLY question burning in YOUR mind is, "How do YOU know?". What is this tendency to stir up strife, complain, point fingers, and make judgments while CONTINUING to REGULARLY frequent and benefit from the places, and associate with/ use the people with which one is supposedly so disgusted and unfriendly? It's raining. If THAT'S not going to be allowed to dampen your day, DEFINITELY don't allow a gossip to do it. Decide that ANY time of day is simply too early for foolishness. Some things you just have to nip in the bud--immediately.