Of Complainers

It’s said that you are who you surround yourself with. This means that if you are around good, kind people you are more likely to be a good, kind person, and vice versa. If that train of thought is believed, than by associating with complainers you are likely also a downer. Is that always such a bad thing though?

Montaigne, in his essay Of the Resemblance of Children to their Father’s, asserts “if [the body] seems to find the disease evaporate… in making loud outcries… let it roar as it will.”