Just Innocent Gossip?
Gossip many seem harmless. ?Did you see her hair yesterday?? ?Where did she get that outfit?? ?He?s dating her?? As long as the person you are discussing doesn?t walk up behind you, it?s okay, right?
Wrong. Spreading gossip is like taking a sack full of feathers and tossing them to the wind. Can you pick them all up again and put them back in the sack? It is like that with words ? once they leave your lips, they are out there forever. You have no control over them, where they go, or who will pass them on. Now with the internet, gossip is even worse. Words could go anywhere in the world, and there is no way to retrieve them.
I was recently waiting in a doctor?s office. The receptionist was on the phone. I?ll call her Sarah. From the one side of the conversation, it was quite obvious that she was complaining about a co-worker. She said some rather nasty things. She was so wrapped up in the conversation that three patients