YES!!!

Definitely - just think how much wasted time and effort could be put to better use, not to mention all of that negative energy that's bringing other people down too!

Yeah. If we focus on the problems instead of the solutions we get nowhere. And, bitching and moaning is focusing on the problems.

Yes now quit your bitching, lol.

MInd if I climb to the top of a very tall mountain and screamed "yes"!!! lol Imagine if all that negative, go nowhere energy were, instead, turned to: -- really looking at and assessing whatever situation or event or people or circumstance or issue or "whatever" has you tied up in knots. What's really going on? -- taking yet more of that easy to come by "let's complain about it" or "let's put it down" or "let's be negative" energy ... and turning it around into brainstorming some ALTERNATIVES to those things you just clarified above. (No sense even trying to be positive if you're barking up the wrong tree to begin with!) -- working out a plan or two - an action or two - the "something" positive that any person can CONTRIBUTE if they so choose - every moment of decision. So .. 1) Worst case is bitch and moan - come what may - nothing changes - and the world is less pleasant for what "your negativity" now added on top of whatever you're bitching about 2) Better, but not best - stop bitching - so you're not compounding a problem - but you don't go that next step to see if YOU can do anything "about" the problem 3) Best is no bitching - then following the steps above to make sure you "have" a problem - and if so, what it really is, then things that could be done about it, then setting out to try some solutions. Full spectrum of ways to "be" in this world. Our choice. :)

Yes, I find if one complains less and goes into action to change themselves or work to improve their circumstances, tries to be who they think others should be, are far more satisfied with their lives.

Oh God yes. What DO they hope to accomplish by sitting around bitching and moaning? Couldn't say. The world would be a better place if all the energy people waste whining was put into taking action instead.

Not necessarily...Imagine how tightly wound people would be if they didn't have a nice, therapeutic vent every now and then.

To a large extent, YES!! The problem isn't really the bitching and moaning, though. It's that generation after generation has not been taught coping skills for when times get rough, or how to recognize red flags, thus associating with and even marring troubled people. We've rarely been taught how to actually communicate with others or how to ask for our basic emotional needs, which we all have. Those three things are the very root of almost every problem our society has. It is every generations legacy to the little ones coming up to the next generation.