WHY DOES EVERYONE LIKE A BIT OF GOSSIP?

I have always wondered why everyone likes a Juicy bit of gossip. Thinking over it I have found myself in the midst of Gossip Trails and I have found to be in the middle of a Gossiping session. I have grown up to know that the only thing a bit of gossip can cause is hurt and rifts, for reasons such as these I stay away cause I know “What goes around, comes back around.” But I have also realized that it would be the worst form of destroying yourself.
It is similar to the growing season of a plant. A seed is sown and everyone loves to look after the plant, everyone waters the plant day after day. Root’s develop. It sprouts from below the soil. The plant begins to grow, the interest in the plant still remains in a few and to a few others they start to move slowly away from it. And within no time tables turn. The plant which has turned into a tree looks after the people.
The seed here, being the bit of juicy gossip which someone has planted about you. The people who love to water the plant are the people who just cannot live without putting oil to a fire. The roots are the depth to which the gossip has gripped a person. The plant is you. And the day the plant looks after the people is the day when everything is given back to them with interest.
But still the Question remains. Why?
Maybe it is because of the insecurities people face, they are unable to accept it. Instead they try bringing to light the faults of others not knowing that “Every Dog has its day.”
It is usually brought about by people who have never ever mingled in their lives that they think that the only way a Friendship can last is by throwing dirt on others.
When a person finds himself or rather herself for the first time ever part of a big group minus the attention she yearns for, she looks for the weakest link and tries to find her deepest, darkest secrets but in vain.
When there is no responsibility, nothing to take the mind off from daily events, like a hobby. It leads to people over thinking the days activities to find some fault in the “Oh so Perfect day!”
Desperation also leads to Gossiping. Desperation because of the sudden load of responsibilities or because of the reason they have nothing to do or even because of the reason they haven’t got the attention they deserve.
Everyone likes a bit of gossip and everyone loves to be accepted. Reasons such as these forms the Groupies. And the Gossip Mongers seem to have achieved a status higher than what they ever thought they desired until they realize that the person barely gives a damn to what they think!
This leads to frustration to the ring leader and reasons why more supposed secrets are made up and developed to a larger than life account of the story which is far from the truth. But as long as we are not the Piñata we are really not bothered. We just enjoy as long as the dirt doesn’t get thrown back. It is indeed tiring thinking of what to make up next but they enjoy doing that. For all you know they would even Google search for deep, dark secrets.
When we can actually live life less the frills of gossip, why cant we? After all we just have one life to live. Alas, this could also be the reason why people gossip!
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