Everything is contagious. The best way to lose weight -- if that's what you want to do -- isn't an app or some podcast or diet. The best way is to only hang out with fit people. You'll be fit fast.

Of course this isn't practical. People value most their friendships based on something other than what kind of goals it'll help them achieve. But then again we have those goal-oriented friendships as well.

Lately one thing I've been distancing myself from are people who complain. I used to pride myself in being an armchair therapist but now I see that acting as such is both bad for the complainer and myself. I only did that because I liked feeling superior. I mean I would say that I did it because I wanted to help my friend, but the real reason was because it made me feel good.

Lately though I've noticed it doesn't feel as good, and I think this point and the previous are related.

I've never been a complainer. I might go on rants and ridicule things but I would never frame it in the way of a complaint or of how this and that should change this way. I played more the comedian. I've noticed recently that I liked listening to my friends complain before because I did have the same complaints, just dormant within me. I held them within me, but didn't share them as complaints because I didn't want to be a complainer.

But I still was. I was a complainer, I just never complained out loud.

These days I notice complaints neither trigger me nor give me a thrill. They just bore me. And this is because I no longer am internally complaining. 

As much.