Rumour has it
Growing up, being a teenager, later a student, I have never had encountered tittle-tattle. Neither of my girlfriends felt a need to gossip about anyone, we never talked behind anyone’s back and the world seemed somehow more sincere.
Right now I live in a small city, ~100k people. Everyone knows each other. We go to the same clubs and we work out in the same gym, we eat in the same cafes and shop at the same supermarkets. I still don’t feel any need to spread rumours. But apparently other people don’t have the same morals. A friend of a close friend is dating a friend of my best friend. Then a former ex girlfriend of a friend was dating a guy who is now dating my close friend. The guy badmouths a coworker of a friend, and the said coworker is also a neighbour of my coworker. It’s just one big mess, everyone feels like he or she knows something about someone and they just have to tell others.
I meet someone new and they have a preconception about me, because apparently some girl whom I have never met and never talked to said something about me. What is this? An effing kindergarten? I hate this so much. So so much. It feels like a Mexican soap opera. I don’t want any part in it.
