My region is known for cultural complaining. Gather people from the Balkans around a table, and it’s like a championship in complaining. I suspect this bad habit has Ottoman roots. You shouldn’t stand out, to not gather unwanted attention. Misery as camouflage.
For me – not sure. At one point, I read How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie. Carnegie is strongly against complaining. He thinks nobody enjoys listening to that and he’s a smart person. I suspect he’s at least partially right. So I’ve been putting some significant effort to not do that, or at least not as much. Also, some of the most popular subreddits on Reddit are all around people complaining about their relationships. So maybe at least some people find diving into other people’s problems a good use of their time.
Overall, I think have a good capacity to complain, and also a strong desire to not do it. Here, I let myself complain about cars, which I believe are bad for everyone, and about AI overviews of websites, which I believe are unfair use of other people’s intellectual property.
Speaking of heritage, here’s a Sofia classic. Pickled food and cats
Veselin.blog 
Someone once said to me, “no complaints, no explanations”. Apparently that’s a quote on someone’s gravestone somewhere out west in the U.S. I occasionally make those efforts at the same time and I have to say, it saves a tremendous amount of energy.
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Sounds a bit sus without an explanation 🙂
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