I should mainly avoid chatting about trivial things and gossiping. I also have a question about gossiping. I try not to participate in gossip. Unfortunately, I do end up hearing some of it because people are always doing it in front of me (I can't really stop them). How do I rectify this?🤫☕🫗🗣️

Sometimes someone says something bad about someone but in a funny way. Sadly, I do end up laughing at it, even though I don’t want to. It’s not that I am laughing at the person but at the way the thing was said. I have a bad habit of not being able to control my laughter at times and it has landed me in trouble before

Not being able to control laughter is fine. One can never laugh enough. But gossip is no doubt a most useless thing, a total waste of energies and sometimes very harmful for oneself as well as for others. While it is the most favorite pasttime of many people it is also the most useless waste of energies.

Affectionately,

Alok Da

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