[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by Redway

And unfortunately, Mock, we live in a world where (wo)mandem will believe anything about you sometimes, especially the less they know you that personally. Instead of to come to you and check what’s being said with you in a diplomatic way (which they would find a way of doing, even if second-handedly, if they really respected you and your integrity that much), they go with rumours and naysay instead.

If they don’t like you anyway, they won’t need much telling or convincing to find a reason to hate you even more or at least justify their contempt for you. But people like me have the most contempt for gossip and by extension the people who ultimately let themselves get sucked into it unquestioningly.

And what those people don’t know is that ultimately they’re being watched and it will come back to bite them eventually, whatever the situation or context (I’m just talking in general). It’s one thing to have a gossipy, nosy mind but to have a gossipy tongue you’re putting it out there indiscreetly and information’s getting out there to people who can vouch for who you’re gossiping about so nonchalantly (who might sometimes just hear you themselves), and that’s the irony. The people who like to gossip the most are by their very nature the least discreet or secretive about it. When you’ve got da window wide-open and you’re not particularly quietly/lowly-spoken or capable of hushing your tone for discretion-call’s sake, you’s being heard loud and clear. And it could be by exactly that very person you don’t want to hear your nonsense. Or they can hear you through the wall if you’re living together (as another example). They may not say anything but that doesn’t mean they don’t know. There’s only so many times a person can put the fan on to block all of that poison coming into their ears without that becoming a point of gossip in itself.

I 100% agree.