08 Dec French people always complain

French people always complain. Is this true? And if yes is it really a bad thing?

To be honest there is some truth to that. My best friend here and me, spent probably half of the time we spent just the two of us complaining. I met her ten days after I arrived in San Francisco and we probably bounded through complaining haha. One day, one week after we met, we were at my place, drinking wine, eating cheese and criticizing American healthcare and education system when it hit us: we were the cliché of the French girls. But after all, aren’t French people the first one who successfully carried a Revolution because they were not happy with what they had ? It is a good thing to be optimistic but if you don’t complain about what you don’t like, it will never change.(I am myself a huge optimist and you’ll see me most of the time smiling and being positive, but I also like criticizing stuff haha) One of the most simple example I have is what is going on at SFSU Library. Barely 20% of the library is quiet study (which by the way makes no sense, usually if you go to the Library is because you want a quiet place to focus -yes I am complaining about it right now), and yet some people go to the quiet study and speak nonstop, without even whispering! I have not once seen an American person -ot anyone else for that matter- stand up and go tell those people to shut up. I have seen many of them look really annoyed by  it and unable to focus, but none of them actually had the guts to complain. After a few minutes I do it ,and guess what? I get to study in a quiet area.

So yes  many French people do complain a lot but sometimes that is what it takes to get what you want.