stop gossiping

So now that this one is more in the forefront of my mind and I am actively working on it, it’s definitely going. It’s still hard as heck, but it’s going! I feel like I’m slowly breaking the habit—and it is a habit! It’s just so ugly and doesn’t get anyone anywhere except for a little bit more hurt and bitter than they were before.

This one is proving to be rather difficult at work. I’m struggling to refrain from talking about others. Ugh, if I could just stop for one day! I will try to stop gossipping for one day, and see how that pans out. If it doesn’t work, I’ll have to reduce to an hour or something.

When you fight off that one person’s gossip and move on, you feel like you’ve achieved a huge thing by overriding their piece of gossip with something positive. Once you do it for the first time it’s like a speedy pill to continue doing it: it snowballs. But it’s like a bad habit—you have to break it. And then once you kick it, you notice it going on all around you. And you realize that it’s ugly, it spreads like gangrene. And you’re excited and encouraged that you’ve stopped this ugly habit.