Thursday, September 6, 2007

Cure Gossip or Gossip Cure?

I don’t like my childhood teachers. They didn’t do their job properly. I also dislike the useless wrong lessons I learned by all adults of my childhood time including my parents. Most of them never taught me what the real world is. I don’t understand why? Why they were all afraid of us, the kids, to know the facts? For example, I clearly remember the great extend of hatred which would grow in me against some very normal behaviours of mankind such as gossiping, being nosey, being jealous, so forth, whenever my parents were involved in one of them, in the shape of either passive or active. It makes no sense to me why they did not like them or at least accept them as the intrinsic properties of our beings.
They all must have been aware of the obvious findings of researchers that men’s satisfactory level of salary is not an absolute matter but is determined by their knowledge about how much their friends are earning and that is why they feel richer when they earn only $50K, $20K more than their friends than when they make $100K, and it is only 90 percent of what their friends are making . And if, based on this fact, our childhood teachers were yet arguing that the less knowledge we have, the happier we would be (I heard this stupid statement frequently from a handy number of persons around me when I was a child) and hence we shouldn’t be nosey about our colleagues‘life, they must have totally ignored that we were a social animal, living together and interacting with each other. It is this fundamental need of seeing ourselves and self-evaluating in the mirror constructed on our friends that derives us to nosily sneak into our friends’ facebook profile to see what they do, whom they date, where they go and how they look like. Knowing these facts helps us to feel jealous about the success of some; this instinct useful feeling will consequently drives our smart and capable ones to strive harder to make ourselves better, or in case it is too hard for some of us to make it, the mental health mechanism would operate wisely and make us gossipingly put our fingers on negative points of the seemingly more successful friends where we possess some strength compared to them.
I can't see what point of this beautifully evolved mechanism looks evil that my teachers never told me anything about it. I dot know why? That's really odd.

3 comments:

  1. Thanks so much:)
    I posted the quotes you mentioned.

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  2. I should create a blog for a lazy man and post his quotes:)))))))

    Thanks

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  3. I guess they were trying to not help us become nosy or "gossippy"(!) which is impossible!
    BTW Your note just reminded me that I haven't looked at the to do part of my friends profiles in facebook!!! I'll read them next time I'm there ;) wish it was written how much they're earning!! [Just kiddin...]

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