unloving talk

Girls’ weaknesses?

Satu. Emosi dan segala hal yang melibatkan perasaan.

Dua. Gosip.

I’ll talk about the latter.

Jadi beberapa malam lalu waktu lagi makan malam, salah seorang teman saya mengeluh karena siangnya ia melihat dua orang teman yang menertawakan teman kami yang lain. Bukannya selama ini saya nggak tahu, kejadian ini sering banget terjadi. Sama siapa aja. Oleh siapa aja. But everyone keeps quiet. Pretends like it’s normal. Including me.

“Kadang sampai nggak nyangka deh, masa hal-hal remeh aja sampai diomongin—diketawain. Rasanya nggak enak banget,” begitu teman saya berkata. This is one of the reasons I love hanging out with them. They raise my standards. Kadang saya juga suka kebawa kalau teman-teman yang lain ngegosip. But these girls remind me to keep my standard high. Gossiping is low. There is nothing you can be proud of when you talk about someone behind his/her back.

And a devotional that night said: Gossip is incredibly destructive. It is destructive to churches, families, and businesses. It is destructive to your life. It tears you up. It separates the closest of friends. It may feel good when we’re gossiping, but it’s also unloving.

Let us be a loving person.

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