You Know WHat ....this guy.. and thats all it takes to start a nice topic and it can go on for ages .Or my favourite statement "Dont tell anyone this ok , " .What a paradoxical phrase , The momment this statment is heard , you can be quite sure that there is a rumor waiting to spread like wild fire.
The wonderfull part of this is , it is almost always about someone elses personal life, most of whom they have never met or talked to .The society today in which we live ,craves to hear about people , especially if they are messed up in something .The sad part is ,if someone is not messed up ,there are magazines and newspapers ready to do it for them .
Any idea , why we dont gossip anything positive .Starting from school , when friends gossip saying"Hey , this guy smokes in the school" to college "this girl goes around with everyone"to office "This guy , he doesnt work ,but gets promtion because he is in the good books of the manager".The primary reason why these are being said , is not to insult the person , its for the person himself to feel good .The egos of a person always tries to compare itself to everything and everyone around it. He/she feels superior after putting down another person .The ego of the person feels big , when it makes the other person look small.Remember this before criticising :-No One is perfect is another way of saying everyone has flaws .
On a lighter note , there is an interesting phrase describing Gossip in Wikepedia "a person, mostly a woman, one who delights in idle talk." Interesting aint it?
