Gossip

What is it about gossip that is so delicious? Is it the fact that you have the opportunity to be In The Know about something that's really not your business? Or is it that we just really like talking about other people behind their backs? I usually try not to participate. If I hear gossip coming around that I already knew from a private matter, I just pretend that it's news to me. Part of me wishes that I would take a strong stand and assert my desire to not be involved in the gossip. Yet the weaker, easier solution is to listen, eagerly taking it in, and voicing my own comments and judgments. I don't forward on the information I hear, but that doesn't make what I've done okay.