by Eddie Pipkin
Image by Robin Higgins from Pixabay
Now is about the time when those New Year’s resolutions start wearing off, so if you have any complainers in your circle who swore off that habit for 2023, they should be slipping right about now. (Such a vow would be undertaken only by amateurs, it should be noted. Professional complainers consider their work a righteous avocation, essential to the progress of humanity.) Of course, we all have complainers in our circles (if we are not, ourselves, the foremost, featured complainer). There are, however, distinct levels of complaining, different qualities of complaint, disparate styles of expressing one’s dissatisfaction, and divergent motives behind the bellyaching. I thought it might be fun this week to take a quick loo