Gossip
My mom used to say, “It’s all fine and good until you get hurt.” She was usually referring to some hair brained scheme my brothers and I dreamed up. She might just as well been talking about gossip though . It’s all fine and good until someone gets hurt and someone always gets hurt. If you’re saying something behind someone’s back it’s gossip. I don’t care what your intention is. It’s mean. It’s bitchy. It’s two faced. So, why do we do it? For one thing gossip is what passes for entertainment these days. Just turn on any entertainment show and even a few news shows for that matter. Gossip sells. That’s the bottom line. It feels justifiable to talk about someone we don’t like and gossiping makes it easy to dislike people. There’s a vicious cycle for you. We whisper innuendo about people we barely know to make ourselves look better. Snide half truths are exploited to take people down a peg when we think they’ve gotten too full of themselve...