Character

In the news and in gossip news, like TMZ people are entertained by the failings of others. Its not funny when its you.

Some message boards end up being nothing but a big gossip mill with nothing but trash talking going on. What is funny to me it that is is usually all men. On some of them, not all. I guess just the ones I am talking about.

It really shows who is your friend and who is ready to say the worst about you or your friends. Its very childish and sad, it also says more about them then they realize. If you are the one gossiping then you are the one with the problem. If the ones that you are gossiping about don't return the favor it says something about them.

We are all adults, right? Why not act like it and behavor that way? If we are holding on to slights that happened years ago, it only hurts the one holdiing on to it, not the one who slighted them in the first place.

It also shows us who are real friends really are. They are the ones that stand by us in the good and the bad. They are the ones that call and ask us how we are doing, not talk behind our backs and not have the courage to say it to our faces. Then again maybe its best if they just keep it to themselves in the frist place. It takes great character to let it go and to not join in, at all.