A Runt’s Rant: The Point of Whinging

The above heading was simply designed to lull you into a false sense of security because

!!!There is absolutely NO point of whinging!!!

Let me, for the benefit of the doubt, prove the above through a few examples:

• The weather is disgusting; I hate it when it’s rainy and windy at the same time!!!

And you are telling me this why? Do I look like Mother Nature to you? Little that I can do, mate…

• I hate my job and the way people treat me at work!!!

Alright then, you are hereby promoted to a director and those who have previously mistreated you are now hereby dismissed. Oh, no, wait- I can’t do any of that.

• My back has been aching for ages and my knee has been playing up on colder days!

Wow, thank you so much for sharing this useful piece of information that I can do so much about.

• I like this girl so much and I really want to tell her but I caaaaaan’t, sad.face.jpeg!

I feel honoured to have found a new purpose of life that is to find a way in which you can tell a girl how much you like her.

• I’ve got this humongous and excruciatingly arduous essay question to tackle and I just haven’t got the time to do it!!!

Not having enough time as in ‘being the president of the USA and having to argue with Congress all the time’?

• I just don’t know what to do with myself…

I do- stop using ‘…’.

It is quite understandable to want to whinge about stuff in general because it kind of makes you feel better.

The horrible thing is, however, that it does not make you feel better because you have shared your troubles and pains but because you have managed to make the listener feel as bad as you.

If you, on the other hand, have a problem which the listener could potentially help you resolve, it would make a lot of sense to share it with him/ her and ASK HIM/HER FOR HELP rather than bombarding him/ her with random statements in the hope that he/she would see through your (non- existent) logic.

So do stop whinging about idle things because it gives us all a massive headache. Also, it makes those around you uneasy, annoyed and more prone to avoid you at any cost.

A friend of mine once said:

‘I stopped crying for shoes when I saw that there were people with no legs.’

Forget your shoes; focus on the important things in life.

And, pray, rather than whinging, just smile and say

To Hell With It!