Gossip

Gossip. To gossip.
Gossip. We all do it even if we don't want to admit it. We all talk about someone with someone. Good or bad we all do it. But still we look down upon those who gossip about others.
"How could she do that? It was something A told her in confidence," that's what we all say when we tell someone about the conversation. But we all know that we love hearing something about others.
We love to hear some humiliating history about A and her night out. Or maybe B was cheating on A and C saw or heard about this and told it to D. No matter what it is about we love to hear it. We don't care if it's a rumor or if it's true.
The only thing we care about is entertainment.

Gossip is what no one claims to like - but what everyone enjoys.

-Joseph Conrad

In danish we have a saying: "One feather becomes five chickens."  It's basically about how one story quickly changes to another when it is passed on. B heard a story about A and told it to C, but what C didn't know was that B made some changes, C passed it on to D and again it was changed and D told it to E again with changes and when E told it to A, A couldn't recognize it.

Even though I don't really like gossip myself I must admit that I gossip myself. It's a human error I think. We need something to talk about, and we don't want to tell the boring story about what we had for dinner yesterday. We need something juicy to talk about, and what is better to talk about than what our neighbor did last night with the woman, who was not his wife?

So you dear readers out there. What do you mean about gossip? Are you willing to admit that you too gossip about people?