One of my favorite quotes

"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." 
--Eleanor Roosevelt


Just like the world works, I stumbled upon this quote from a picture on Pinterest at the perfect time when I needed to read something.  I had just gotten home from a friends house where I was trying to discuss the things that interested me, and how excited I was to go back to school.  I have absolutely fallen in love with  science, and quite a few of my friends are also science lovers which puts the biggest smile on my face.  Anyway though this friend couldn't care less about what I had to say, which was fine with me.  I am quite use to people not having similar interests, and I take a lot of joy in learning about the things that they are interested in.  However I was quite annoyed that all my friend wanted to discuss was gossip.  I occasionally will talk about other people,  I like to analyze behavior and come up with possible reasons why people act, and respond to situations the way they do.  This wasn't the case though, and if I continue I feel that I will be just as guilty of the actions.


When I did come across this quote it made me think of how different the two of us are, and although it might put this person down I think that it is entirely true.