“Gossip needn’t be false to be evil — there’s a lot of truth that shouldn’t be passed around.”
—Frank A. Clark
Talking about our friends and enemies is a pretty common thing to do. We don’t always mean to be evil and hurtful when we pass things around amongst our acquaintances, but we still do it.
Most of us feel a tinge of guilt when we find ourselves in the middle of a situation with friends where things have been passed around amongst those involved and those who have no part in the incident. We hear something, we repeat it, and then it gets passed around. By the time it gets back to the person who is being talked about it is a hurtful thing.
It’s like the secret game we used to do in elementary school where someone would whisper something into the ear of another and then go around the whole classroom repeating it to the next person in the row. Once it got to the last person and they repeated it out loud it never came out the way it started.
So it is with gossip. And even if gossip were repeated exactly as the incidents happened, it still becomes hurtful to those involved.
Even the truth does not need to be passed around by us if it’s not our issue to talk about.
It is a difficult thing to keep secrets or not to repeat things that we know about another. However each time we do it we hurt ourselves and the person we talk about. It’s just hurtful, negative energy that we don’t really need to be putting out there.
Spend more time showing kindness than you do gossiping.
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