You gossip. I gossip. Everyone gossips, whispers, spreads rumors, secrets, or makes comments about others. Sometimes we gossip for good, and other times, it is with malicious intent. Even more, sometimes we don’t realize we are gossiping because it has become so commonplace. From the time we start elementary school, we develop an addiction to gossip that we carry into our workplace.
Sometimes we unwillingly get sucked into the scandal because we don’t want to be rude. We don’t want to hurt someone’s feelings, and as a result, we don’t say no and decline to participate, even despite being victims of hurtful toxic gossip ourselves. Begin your journey of gossip addiction recovery by rethinking gossip with these quotes.
Keep your eyes open for joy stealers
No one has the right to steal your joy. Further, you don’t have the right to steal theirs. Keep your eyes open for these everyday joy thieves.
What pairs well with gossip? Lying.
Fake news, fake truth, and gossip are all the same. They require a lie before it can spread.
People are insecure, so they gossip to feel better about themselves
People whisper about other people so other people won’t talk about them. They are insecure about their flaws, so they constantly make comments to point out the flaws in others. Don’t extinguish someone else’s light in a failed attempt to make yours shine brighter.
Reveling your secrets to another is always risky
Bad news is remembered longer than good news. Long after you have resolved your secrets and moved on with your life, the wrong people will continue to focus on it and talk about it. Ensure the person you trust to reveal your secrets to isn’t telling them to people you don’t trust.
Flattery will get you everywhere except true friendship
A flatter speaks to please. They greet you with compliments even when you know full well you are showing up as the worst version of yourself. Flattery and manipulation go hand-in-hand. Where there is constant flattery served with a smile to your face, there is the opposite being said behind your back.
Cruel stories run on wheels
Cruel stories about you spread quickly. Every mouth that spreads those rumors, either misheard, misquoted, misunderstood, or worse, simply exaggerates the situation.
Gossip is earing something you like about someone you don’t
A sign that you are gossiping is when you find yourself liking the information but not liking the person the information is about.
Negative, hurtful, and cruel words spread for miles yet have no wings
Words spread for miles. Negative, hurtful, and cruel words will blanket the city just as feathers that are ripped from a pillow.
Seeing and hearing one thing but understanding something different
Have you ever been in a conversation with someone only to later find they understood it completely differently than you? Or maybe you were in a situation with someone, and they remember it very differently than you do? Gossips have the unique ability to listen to one story and spread it differently.
Nothing that you hear and only half of what you see should be believed
You can’t always trust what you hear. You can’t rely on your interpretation of everything you see. Believe nothing of what you hear and only half of what you see. Even more, don’t gossip about either of them!
The funny thing about gossip is it is usually the people who know the least or care the least about a situation that always have something to say. Because they spend their time focused more on others than on themselves, find some comfort that you will easily surpass them as time goes on. Allow their gossip to fuel you to become so good they can’t ignore you. So good that their words become unbelievable. You will survive the gossip, and hopefully, these quotes will help.
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