Accomplice?

Gossips and gossipers are everywhere...And it's true that you can never avoid them all at the same time. Neither can I.

To be honest, sometimes I gossip, and I don't even realize that I'm doing it. Well I should never gossip about anything, but sometimes it's automatic, and there's no way I can control my emotions from just letting everything out. And thinking about what people talked to me about this past week and even what I thought about during those conversations, gossips take a huge part. It is interesting, though, how 50% of the time I am just a listener, but for the other half, I am actually partaking of a shameful act of talking bad about people in their back. What a coward!

But the worst thing is, I let people talk about other people even though most things they talk to me about are never true, at least from the experiences I have had with those people who are unwillingly give false labels. It is just amazing how my mind and my mouth work independently although I only have one control center ordering things to my body.

And for this reason, I sometime feel like the opportunists from Dante's Inferno.
I have to admit that I do not correct those gossipers' false rumors because I want to stay an all-favorite at school. This was, of course, an unconscious act, but now that I think about it, I remember the guilt I felt after becoming an accomplice by just letting an unjust, unfair action continue on. Well, I guess I just didn't want to confront anyone about something that is self-explanatory. But, that still does not justify my complicity.