“One can not hold another down in a ditch, without being in the ditch themselves. ”
–Cylithria Dubois
Lately, I’ve been on a gossip diet by attempting not to participate in gossip. I’m striving to not gossip about other people in my life. More than that, I’m actively avoiding the pervasive gossip industry.
You can’t imagine how difficult it is to avoid gossip. Sometimes, it seems like all people talk about. Who did this? Who did that? Who broke up with whom? While I find people intriguing, in order to even listen, I must step into someone else’s judgements.
Truth be told? I feel better when I’m not participating in gossip. I have clearer thoughts and am less afraid of the world. The problem is that these toxic thoughts, articles and photos are addictive and pervasive.
It’s time for me to clean up my act. There’s no place for gossip in my kind life. Period.
Why do you think there’s so much of this now? What inside us is drawn to the tawdry details of second rate actors?
Simply Kind Tuesday Participants
Gossip like that found in the check out lanes and television news and even that person to person stuff is what the ropaganda machine uses to make us feel better about the shitty mess we all are living in.
Personally I laugh when it comes about…because I know that nothing stupid anyone else does is going to change the stink of the shit I myself am standing in.
So hear it and laugh not at the victim nor the recipient (because you can choose to not pass it on) but at the purveyor of it. And I say laugh because you know…court jesters have their place too,
TWMark – I hadn’t actually thought of them as court jesters. That’s a great point.
The only gossip I have been participating in lately is the celebrity kind. I can’t give up my people.com. The addiction is too strong!
i’m a fervent avoider of celeb gossip and tho my friends know this abt me they still tell me!! ack!! i can’t stand it!! those people deserve to have lives just like the rest of us. ok red carpet pics are to be expected but sbucks and gas station pics? who’s sleeping with whom? none of my business! i don’t want that much info abt people i love let alone strangers! (pet peeve) wow. lol
Perpstu – That’s a tough one, I think. And also pretty awful. I wonder how you’d feel if you gave it up for a week.
Jameil – This cracked me up : I don’t want to know that much info about people I love, let alone strangers! Now, that’s a good perspective.