omg iv just realised how much gossip goes on!!! too much imo!!! i personally don't really care about things unless theyr related to me or my closest friends directly or my family, and i find it easier not to know all this stuff, particularly cuz at least half is crap or at least exaggerated crap. i can't believe people completely believe stuff they hear about people, not to mention people bitching and talking about other people all the time... seems a bit lifeless sometimes, esp considering we aren't celebrities. i mean, yes, i think its ok to do it once in a while, to let off steam, but only really appropriate if everyone you're saying it to actually knows the person personally. and i think it's ok if you're close friends with the person you're currently finding annoying and you're saying stuff about their annoyingness to other close friends of the friend and yourself. otherwise, i think people should mind their own business and try not to be as nosy and care so much about other people's lives. it seems a bit sad.
random ranting. don't take it personally, i'm just talking about the general public.
i prefer talking to the dudes sometimes. the dudes that i talk about academic stuff to of course, as impersonal and yet helpful and interesting.
and about myself personally, not just in the general case like above, in case you didnt know, im a very private person. i am a person who passionately loves her friends and family, but doesnt really spread this around to everyone, thats just who i am, so i think if you don't really know me as well as them, then you prob don't know me that amazingly well. i'm hard to get/read.
but yeah, i always remember this poster on a wall at cobham (cuz i liked the saying and think its appropriate):
- big minds discuss ideas
- medium minds discuss events
- small minds discuss people.
love forever,
~tania
