Does complaining help or hurt the quest for happiness?

Does complaining help or hurt the quest for happiness?

Neal Tadken ( Associate Rector for Pastoral Care) gives expert video advice on: Is happiness worth pursuing?; What are the essential ingredients of happiness?; What gets in the way of happiness? and more...

I think complaining can do both, can both help and hurt; depends on what the purpose of the complaining is. Is the complaining to kind of vent and get it out so that we can move beyond it? Then it can help us, you know it's just a good catharsis, you know, get it all out and just say okay that's done with now I can get about my business. If complaining becomes an excuse not to do anything then it of course it can hurt us because then you know it really just becomes an excuse for further turning inward. So it really just depends, I complain, I complain all the time. But, you know I get it out, just get it out and get it over with.