It is an invasive question, but it
is the major subject we all talk about.
What brought this on? Well, there
is this soap opera that comes on the same time as I have lunch. Yes, I know,
don’t get on my case. I couldn’t even tell you the names of the characters it
just plays in the background. The acting is slow and the personalities are
adequate for daytime television but I noticed to continue the bizarre plots,
each character seems to be having problems and all the other’s want to know
what it is.
Then you start thinking and that
brings trouble.
When meeting people and we get by
the usual greetings and small talk about family and latest purchases, we start
to dig into “what’s wrong”.
Problems with the house or getting
the car repaired or trouble with the kids even if you can relate problems at
work. We love this stuff.
Yes, we love to complain and
everyone else seems to like to listen and add his or her own views on a
problem. Why do we do that?
It must be human nature to want to
find out about others problems. Maybe it makes us feel better that it is not
our problem? Maybe it is sharing bad experiences? Maybe it is offering
solutions that might solve a friend’s troubles? Maybe we just need the comfort
of others during stressful experiences? Maybe someone will come up with a worst
problem and that will make us feel better? Maybe we can just shock others with
what is unimaginable because they do not know our reality?
So what’s your problem?
1 comment:
It's all of the above. Can you imagine the gossip in an isolated village where the only things that happen are the mundane little bumps in other people's lives? One fellow I ran into in New Cumberland the other day said, "Everyone knows everyone else's business." Either it's outrage about what's on the news that will never really affect us, or it's the stories that are more engaging that are both true (or at least are purported to be) and local.
Even the cats and dogs sniff everything to find out what has been going on and who's been where. That's why life is better than being a rock.
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