We've all have moments in our lives where we've just wanted to complain.  Perhaps we had poor service in a restaurant, been shoved aside by a hostile holiday shopper, or been cut off by cell-phone holding driver who is apparently late for a fire.  Whatever the cause, we all have that urge to complain. Now, omplaining is not critiquing.  Critiquing is a positive exercise which is done for the well-being of both the person being critiqued and the one doing the critiquing.  Complaining, on the other hand, has no such noble goal - complaining is about the desire to prove to ourselves, and others, that we are better than "those people."  Complaining eats away at our soul, and leads us towards bitterness and anger.
Have you noticed that you meet a lot of complainers during the "holiday season?"