I complain about annoying people, bad drivers, my children deliberately breaking rules, rude people, people who are unkind, and politcians the most.
But other than those things, I don’t complain very much anymore. I used to be really negative and got in the habit of complaining all the time. I didn’t like how that negativity makes me feel, so I pulled myself out of it. I refuse to get sucked into anyone else’s negative spiral as well.
Although I do recognize that everyone, including me, does get to feel negative at times, I think that there is such a thing as too much complaining. I stay away from people who complain too much, or can’t let something go after a reasonable period of time like two years. I once had a friend who complained about the same damn thing every day for two years. TWO YEARS! That was excessive, especially considering that the person she was complaining about stopped being her friend because of HER actions. She often said offensive things and never stopped to consider that the trail of “former friends” was getting longer consistently. She was the kind of person who leeched onto whoever was nice to her and sucked the lifeblood out of you. She was exhausting to everyone that knew her.
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