Should you worry about gossip

Answer 1

No, it's mostly untrue anyway. No you should not worry about gossip unless you are the one who is gossiping. A pastor once told a story and it went like this, " There once was a man who spoke untruthfully of his neighbor. The man envied his neighbor for being more successful and handsome than himself, so it made him feel better to bring someone else down to his level by slandering him. One day the neighbor found out about this gossip and was very disappointed in his neighbor. He went to the gossiping neighbor's home and took a feather pillow with him. He said, 'hello neighbor, how good to see you, come with me.' The gossiping man went with his neighbor to a windy hill that overlooked the whole town. Suddenly the man who had been slandered and lied about took the pillow he had brought with him and shredded it, feathers blowing everywhere. He then said, 'neighbor, it hurts me that you have lied about me and slandered my name'. The bad gossiping man genuinely responded, 'I am so sorry, I didn't mean to hurt you but to make you equal to myself instead of always being above me in some way. Please forgive me.' So the neighbor who had been slandered responded, 'I can forgive you, but you have now ruined my reputation, and once you have said something, there is no way to un-say it. It is nearly impossible to end the quickly traveling rumors you have told about me. As impossible as it is to collect all those feathers and rebuild this pillow.'" Gossip is fast to travel and very difficult to unsay, but just like the feathers, eventually it all blows over, but do not forget the harm gossiping can do to a person.

Answer 2

• It depends what the gossip is. If one feels the gossip will hurt their reputation and the gossip is untrue they should stand up for their rights and clear matters up. If it is just idle gossip ignore it. The magic with gossip is it will only last a short time until someone else is targeted and then the gossip will stop about you.