This is one of my favorite quotes.
Small minds discuss people.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Average minds discuss events.
Great minds discuss ideas.
This is of those things I see all too often. I remember growing up and seeing adults spending hours on the phone talking about what this person was doing and what that person did. It seemed like such a waste of time.
Imagine there being an afterlife and you had to sit in front of a board of spirits that scrutinized your use of time on earth and they used this as a measure of whether you wasted your given life or not.