If we ask ourselves genuinely...sincerely listening to our heart's voice..."What have you been doing recently?" (or even years for that matter), we can become aware that most of the time we have been spending talking about others. It can be about...
what others did or did not do...
what they should have done or shouldn't have...
why they did or did not do...
Do we call this 'gossip'? Whatever it be labelled as is not the matter of concern. What matters the most is that we are indulging ourselves needlessly by talking about others actions and behaviors, and exploring reasons or motives behind them.
How often do we spend time by talking about others? Why is it so hard for us to be focused on our own lives with regard to decisions, behaviors, communication patterns, choices, perceptions and attitudes. Why we do get so indulged in others affairs...Is this a colossal habit? Oh Yes! And we soon need to break free from this habit...
Apostle Paul has a good piece of advice for us to do it...
1 Thessalonians 4:11 (NIV)
and to make it your ambition to lead a quiet life: You should mind your own business and work with your hands.
A quiet life and minding our own business will help us stop thinking and talking needlessly about others...
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