This is Why I Hate Gossip

You know that feeling you get when you get bluntly accused of something you did not do? That sick deep down in your stomache, not that you got caught, but that feeling that just makes you sick and upset.. That's how I've felt all night. Like... You never thought that person would EVER believe such a thing if someone ever had the audacity told even tell ANYONE that flat out lie. You always thought that person cared enough about you to say "your wrong" to the person who told them the falsehood... I guess you can never really know a person... I guess you can never really know how much they respect you until something like this happens. In my eyes there are three steps to this.. Three levels.

1. When they hear the statement like this to just say, "your wrong" and drop the subject.

2. When they hear the statement they confront the person the statement is about, but in a questioning way with an open mind.

3. When they hear the statment they confront the one the statement is about and accuse them. No questions, just accusing. No willingness to listen.

I love in the Work and the Glory when they are in the temple after the riot happened and one of the men says something like... "I could tell you things about Joe Smith that would make you question him!" and the other man says, "Then DON'T tell me!"