Are you a gossip?

I will admit that, in the past, I have been a gossip. I cannot tell you how many times I heard friends or colleagues start a sentence with, “Don’t tell anyone I told you this but. . .”

I will acknowledge that, in the past, that I would follow up with the expected answer, “Of course, I wouldn’t. What do you want to tell me?”

But over the past several years, I have had a different response. My response has been, “That’s ok, I don’t need to know.”

Am I finally maturing? Perhaps, through the years, I have come to realize how truly devastating gossip can be. What do you think?