Gossip

Gossip is a very terrible thing, and is detrimental to the reputation of an individual. This story has a wonderful analogy for gossip, because like feathers that float away in the wind, they never can be completely gathered up. This is almost identical to what happens when someone starts a rumor. It begins with one person telling a lie, and then people want to tell everyone they know, and those people want to tell everyone they know, and so on. Once the train of gossip is set in motion, it will never stop. Gossip give the originator a sense of false confidence. By degrading others with lies, they believe that it makes them a better person, or more popular. To have a false rumor started about you is horrible, because much like the person who stared the gossip, you cannot stop it, and then people develop a false image of the subject of the rumor. Gossip is something that cannot be solved without a very public statement done by the originator of the rumor, stating that the gossip is nothing more than just that, a rumor.