If you're a person who complains about everything all the time, then you're just the boy who cried 'wolf.' But if you do it on occasion and about the right reasons, then people listen.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints.
I guess I have never been much of a complainer. You just take what is given you, and don't complain about what you can't affect.
There are days that I wake up and I complain, and when I complain I pinch myself and say, 'that's for complaining.' Not many people can do what they really like in life.
Once you're in the presence of people who have put their lives actively on the line, repeatedly, you're never allowed to complain again. And I do, and we all do. But now I look at things a little differently.
Realize that if you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.
To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.
I like to complain and do nothing to make things better.
Complaining is good for you as long as you're not complaining to the person you're complaining about.
When you see somebody who's got a complaining personality, it usually means that they had some vision of what things could be, and they're constantly disappointed by that. I think that would be the camp that I would fall into - constantly horrified by the things people do.
If you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.