Sob Stories: Don't Talk Too Much about Your Issues

Don McMinn
Nov 5, 2019
1 min read

We all have mental tapes that play over and over in our minds. If they are positive narratives, there’s no major downside other than they’re unnecessarily using up our brain-energy If our mental tapes have a negative or painful storyline they will eventually adversely affect our mind, emotions, and behavior.

What is the downside of verbalizing those redundant sob stories? It’s one thing to clutter our own minds with these anecdotes. It’s another thing to clutter our conversations with them.

“Be merciful in action, kindly in heart, humble in mind. Accept life, and be most patient and tolerant with one another, always ready to forgive if you have a difference with anyone. Forgive as freely as the Lord has forgiven you. And, above everything else, be truly loving, for love is the golden chain of all the virtues.” Colossians 3:12

Analyze your conversations and notice if you tend to tell the same thing over and again. If so, perhaps you should tidy up your speech; delete the old stories and identify some new ones. Here are some areas to explore.