Happy & Healthy
WHY COMPLAINING IS GOOD
FOR YOU
Ha, I find this fe-no-me-naal news. Complaining is good for you. This offers opportunities, dear readers. You can cheerfully send all the nooks and crannies of your whiny self out into the world. I see a billion options to expand my conversation topics with unsuspecting chatter partners. A day ago, I was cautious, because you don't want to be known as The Whiner. But now it's just allowed. Three cheers for the whiners in our lives.
Here's the thing. There is a new book titled: The Wisdom Behind Emotion and Feeling. Psychologist Wendy van Mieghem wrote it and told the AD that complaining is very functional. Just a little complaining helps you blow off steam and it creates a bond. Well, I think that's fantastic news. Yes, I only want non-complaining types around me. No, only non-complaining types don't exist. So it's perfectly fine to have a good whine together. And if you open a bottle of wine and add a piece of cheese, you might even have a chance for a nice evening. Okay, it's tricky if your whiny partner is an unknown man at the bus stop, but hey, it's the idea. And if you don't know what to vent about; these are the absolute top topics from our frustration cycle:
Everything that involves NS
Yes, and you know that the whiner who brings up this topic at the platform is right. You happily chime in (creates a bond, remember).
Hello, the weather
Here too warm, there too cold, this too much rain, that too much wind. If someone goes off about the Dutch weather, then that's allowed. Unless you can scientifically prove that we have a top climate here. Well? No, I thought so too.
“Ah, that feels good. Okay, done?”
WiFi
You would think that everyone has some four-G power, but no. And then it's just a matter of a blink of your eyes before the whining about Wireless Fidelity takes over. Logical, because how annoying is bad internet? Without WiFi, you're hopeless, because you're behind practically the whole world.
Traffic
Because everyone on the road is doing it wrong, except you. #steamoutofyourears
About being overweight
Yes, the burden of women. You are thin and I am fat and that is NOT FAIR. This is somewhat unnuanced, but believe me… We have a range of ways to ventilate this (and to scare men away).
Nothing to wear
A closet full, but nothing hangs in it that you want to put on your body to hide the previous point. And you complain about that, yes.
Standing in line
And then you are in the wrong line, because the other one always goes faster.
So, that feels good. Okay, done? Done. Goodness, just imagine if we all complained all day long, what a fuss. To be continued.
