There is nothing more unproductive than sitting around and listening to gossip and hearing what other brain dead people have to say about other people. Are you in any way richer or wealthier than you were before you wanted to get involved in gossip?
Gossiping is for those people that want to make themselves seem important and talk bad about those that are doing better than them. It is never someone who is richer/successful than you gossiping, it is always someone doing worse than you saying something.
If it does not make you better financially, mentally and physically why are you getting involved, sounds like you got a sheep mentality and you want to feel included or get validation from other people.
Let's just be honest about it. Gossip, in its essence, is a form of retaliation. You're trying to get back at the person who offended you by talking about them behind their back.
Great quotes about gossip:
People who judge harshly, criticize and condemn others through gossip, rumor or bad word of mouth are setting themselves up for the same unfair trials.
If you sitting with a group of friends that are gossiping about people then you should raise your voice and tell the friends that this is none of their business to talk about people's lives, lifestyles or what so ever, initially it can be, it hard to convince them but not impossible to evaluate.
The more drastic action is to remove all those social media apps that do not provide benefits to your life, to your well-being or to your freedom of mind. This means that you remove, delete in fact, any social media application that does not meet your definition of being free from those who simply love to gossip, those who ask inappropriate questions, those who live each day focusing on social media rather than what I call real meaningful person to person exchanges, and from those who seem to spend their time devoted to the negativity around them rather than contributing to the positive aspects of life.
What is told in the ear of a man is often heard 100 miles away.
Not allowing yourself to get dragged into gossip and talking behind people's backs can be a challenge but is essential as part of the master plan. It is one of the Ten Golden Rules.
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