Last Updated on 2016-05-19 , 1:54 pm
We Singaporeans love to complain but sorry to disappoint you, we need to ask you to stop. Because it is really unhealthy.
You’d think letting steam out and expressing your dissatisfaction is healthy, but no. Not only is complaining not healthy, it is downright harmful for you and your loved ones as well.
We don’t complain for nothing. We want others to know that we are unhappy. However, not only does this not help you feel better, it can affect everyone around you when you infect them with your unhappy vibes. So, one complainer in the house, and the whole family suffers.
Our tendency to complain is not good for our brains, nor is it great for our physical and mental health. A nerve pathway is a collection of nerve cells connected via “synaptic clefts,” the spaces between individual nerve cells. When a nerve cell fires, there is an electrochemical charge directed across that synaptic cleft to the next nerve cell adjacent to it. The ability of subsequent signals to cross the synaptic cleft is enhanced with each signal transmission. In a way, you’re training yourself into doing it over and over again, and it gets even easier to do it the next time.
We know that you’ve skipped the previous paragraph because it also took us some time to understand it. Basically, when you complain a lot, you are training yourself to be really good at resenting, at feeling bad and basically all that toxic shit. Now why do you want to be good at something so foul?
So to solve that problem, you need to put down that ego and stop complaining about everything that comes in your way. Instead, try to understand the problems that other people might face, and complain only when you have solid advice to help the other party improve.
This way, hopefully, you can instead train yourself to be more understanding and be a critical thinker who can really solve problems instead of just throwing tantrums. And hopefully you can become a better person and contribute more to society.
Just to make this article more chim, we’ll throw in another alien language. Cortisol, known as the “stress hormone”, is released by our negative behavior. It will “interfere with learning and memory, lower immune function, and bone density, increase weight” and so forth. Negative behavior patterns trigger negative thinking, but also induce bad health in the process by enhancing the synaptic cleft and nerve pathways to cortisol.
We know that you’ve skipped that paragraph too, but basically it means that being negative not only affects mental health, but also affects physical health.
Now that you know this, will you still complain so easily?
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