Gossip

Is there any redeeming value to gossip?

If so, please make a comment as I am having difficulty finding anything useful to gossip. All I can glean from gossip is destruction.

Have you heard the saying: “Opinions are like ass holes, we all have one and they stink”?

That is the problem with gossip. It may start as a piece of information and we tend to insert our opinion as part of the fact. The gossip then travels from person to person with each inserting their own perception and in a short time the gossip is a complete and factious, stinking lie.

Or, how about the saying:

“you can learn more about a person by what they say about someone else”

Let’s explore this the next few days as I have come to know gossip as an aspect of the Do It For Me Syndrome character trait and its relation to the ego.