gossip less

I’ve noticed that I’ve gotten especially bad about this at work. Sadly, it seems that sometimes the only things you have to talk about with certain people is gossip. Not that I can currently talk, because I’m clearly helping to fuel the fire (with gasoline and matches, lately).

I’d really like to be a nicer person generally, and definitely not the person that uses everyone else to crack jokes or tell stories. I think I’m better than that. Or that I can be, anyway.

I’m in college. I live in a house with 4 other girls. You do the math. It’s inevitable.

Seriously though, how do you cut back when it seems that gossip is always the main topic of conversation?

But WITH REASON!! It’s hard not to gossip when your pathological liar roommate who disappears for weeks at a time and doesn’t return phone calls, decides to show up one night. She owes $100 in bills, hasn’t found a subleaser since she’s apparently moving out this weekend, and basically got all tangled up in her lies. I really have been trying not to gossip about people, but this girl deserved it this week.

I hate hearing shit people say about me, and I hate talking about other people & making them feel the same way…what goes around comes around. Time to cut back & maybe up the good karma.

Plus…who likes getting caught?