On complaining less

[nancylebov]

For no apparent reason, I started paying attention to whether complaining made me feel better, and I found that for a lot of things, talking about them four or five times made me feel better, but after that, it was just habit, so I'd stop after four or five times (hopefully to different people).

At this point, there are annoying things that happen to me that I don't talk about at all because they don't seem to be worth mentioning.

Comments

[terriwells.livejournal.com]

Now that you mention it, I've noticed something similar about myself; if I'm hung up on something emotionally, telling four or five people about it diffuses it for me.