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Ken Parsell is the author of The Catalyst of Confidence and Discipline. He maintained this blog from 2011 to 2014. He is now working on other projects. Visit his website at www.kennethparsell.com.

Monday, May 7, 2012

Some Derogatory Remarks on "Venting"

People don't need to know about your problems. Keep such things to yourself. Stop lurking around for a fresh victim to lambast with your sorrows. If you need to talk, do so with a close friend, but don't develop the habit of venting to whoever will listen. People may tolerate your lamentations politely, but will disappear when the opportunity presents itself, thankful to slip away. Serial-venters are like the grim reaper, wandering about, darkening the rooms they enter, killing plants and leaving corpses in their wake. Such people are, if possible, avoided, and if not, dreaded. No one enjoys keeping company with an emotional vampire who sucks the life out of them. Talk to yourself, or your pet if you must, but avoid spreading your misery among the populace. People don't need to know about your problems. Keep such things to yourself, or better yet, solve them.

(Companion post: A Quick Follow Up.)

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