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Taken from the book
Americans have gotten to be the whiniest people on earth.
You hear it everywhere.
“My boss is a jerk. The soup is too cold. How can traffic be so slow? This movie sucks.”
As well as, “Mommy, I don’t waaannt tooo… Daddy, are we therrre yet?”
We all do it. Worse, we accept it, both in ourselves and in others. Nowhere else in the world do people complain so continually about such a huge variety of things. Why? Because nowhere else in the world do people have it so good.
If you had to stand on line for two hours every morning to get drinking water, do you think you’d really be complaining that the lettuce in your salad is slightly wilted? I think not. If the floors in your house were made of mud, would you complain that the air conditioning was too cold? Ummm, no!
It’s not that we’ve got too much. You can never have too much. It’s that we’ve simply gotten in the HABIT of complaint. It’s not only socially acceptable, it’s a form of communication. The Jerry Seinfeld show was built on the concept of complaint and despair about silly meaningless problems. It held the perfect mirror up to us, of ourselves. Jerry’s girlfriend wears the same dress two nights in a row. George’s girlfriend is too loving. Kramer is not satisfied with the food that he mooches from his friends.
So what? (You whine). Who cares? (You snivel). What does it matter? (You cry).
I’m going to show you how much this incessant whining belittles your life. It gets to the point that we actually believe the things we are complaining about. It’s “the Big Lie”, and we’re telling it to ourselves.
Taken from the book, "Quit Whining - Change it, Leave it or Accept it, but shut the heck up!"
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