Grumpiness (Poll)

[milo]

Grunpiness, sulking, whining about the past, present or future: does it serve a purpose?

Many purposes (in moderation) - an emotional screen for calculation or (deserved) cynicism, weariness, and sort-of-polite disagreement.  And afterward, a source of self-dissatisfaction plus a well of renewed contact:  apologies are so useful!

Apologies, the most precious and effective of interactions, a tool right up there with thumbs, unique to humanity, so underused.

grumpy smurf was always my favorite smurf - he was so iconic.  I don't like being grumpy and I don't like when others are grumpy but I do think there is some benefit.  It fills a need when you are unhappy about something but either you can't or won't put it in words but it still seems to move the matter out of your syste.