A couple of weekends ago I met up with a relative – and in the first 10 mins of our conversation, she told me she was:
👿 sick to death of all the rain Sydney was having
😡 so tired from having to cook meals for her family
😠irritated about how much housework she had to do
🤡 concerned that I had not called her all week
👹 bothered by how often people walked around looking at phones
Friends – this dear relative of mine has made complaining an art form.
So, how do you know if you are a complainer? If you:
💀 talk about facts, but your tone and attitude toward it is anger/irritation
☠you are not interested in hearing solutions to your complaints
👽 people around you roll their eyes whenever you make a “negative” comment
There are many other signs. But the best way to know is this:
When someone says something (generally neutral or positive), you chime in with your “factual comment” and others laugh and make a comment about how YOU tend to “keep it real” or “you have a knack for injecting negativity”.
This likely means that you have a pattern of being negative through your frequent complaints.
Try not to be a complainer, friends. In case you did not know this, serial complainers bring others down. 💡 🙄
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