The all-to-common plague of speaking negatively of others… We’re all guilty of it. I know I am, or as a work in progress I’d like to say, used to be. But some of us are just more aware of this than others. The awareness in this capacity is what carries the possibility of improvement and change. Do we really want to be receptive and open to accepting garbage? Our minds can only take in so much in a given day, and there is a capacity limit, so why don’t we leave the BS out, refuse to accept it, and leave some more room for the good positive stuff? The influence it has is subtle, but over time it compounds without notice, and it rears its ugly head in some form down the line. Simplified, we can all take the simplistic advice of Thumper from the movie Bambi when he states: “if you can’t say somethin’ nice, don’t say nothin’ at all”. Or, we can make like Socrates and bust out a Triple Filter Test when we, or someone is about to spew some junk. Read more