What's the Deal with Drama
January 30th 2007 04:13
What is the deal with drama, I ask you?
Why do we love it on our television, crave it in the cinema, long for it in our novels, but when it sneaks into our lives we fall apart?
Beverly Hills 90210--my first taste of my absolute love for the "high-school drama." That was before I was in high school, you see. I needed someone else's drama, because my own was not yet involving, engaging, ensnaring.
Then came Felicity--the "college drama" which was perfect, because I was in high school and i needed an escape from my own drama. Plus it complemented nicely with the 90210 post-college drama that was evolving on my television weekly. It was for sure an escape from who was taking who to a dance, who shared information about who to the wrong people, how many fights one would be involved in that week, or how many white-lies one would have to tell to protect their precarious social standing!
and now, I can guiltily admit, there is One Tree Hill. Yes, its a resort back to the good-old-high-school-drama, when ever look, conversation, interaction was meant to define your life. When tensions ran high, excitment overwhelmed you. When you thought you were important beyond compare, and that that importance would grow and magnify on the condensed timeline on which you envisaged your life unraveling.
These are my introductions, my fundamental's of drama. But some prefer their drama to come with crime and not angst, some suggest that drama should involve blood and not tears, lawyers fighting rape crimes not teenagers deliberating about virginities.
What about drama in your own life? Do you have it? Do you crave it? Can you live without it? Because my life is dramatic enough for everyone. And when i don't have it, i crave it, and when it seems to be resolving itself i wonder how in the world things will ever stay interesting. Of course in the middle of it I wonder how i got here, if i'll ever learn, if you can ever back up and try-again, say sorry sooner, shut your mouth earlier, notice the top of the downward spiral before falling helplessly into it.
Do you ever get this way? Do you ever learn???????
Is it trendy to have drama but to manage it, or to stay uninvolved entirely? Is it trendy to leave the drama to the actors?
I say a little angst here and there can help us all learn lessons faster, teach us who we are sooner, and generally make your day a little more interesting...if you crave interesting....
Why do we love it on our television, crave it in the cinema, long for it in our novels, but when it sneaks into our lives we fall apart?
Beverly Hills 90210--my first taste of my absolute love for the "high-school drama." That was before I was in high school, you see. I needed someone else's drama, because my own was not yet involving, engaging, ensnaring.
Then came Felicity--the "college drama" which was perfect, because I was in high school and i needed an escape from my own drama. Plus it complemented nicely with the 90210 post-college drama that was evolving on my television weekly. It was for sure an escape from who was taking who to a dance, who shared information about who to the wrong people, how many fights one would be involved in that week, or how many white-lies one would have to tell to protect their precarious social standing!
and now, I can guiltily admit, there is One Tree Hill. Yes, its a resort back to the good-old-high-school-drama, when ever look, conversation, interaction was meant to define your life. When tensions ran high, excitment overwhelmed you. When you thought you were important beyond compare, and that that importance would grow and magnify on the condensed timeline on which you envisaged your life unraveling.
These are my introductions, my fundamental's of drama. But some prefer their drama to come with crime and not angst, some suggest that drama should involve blood and not tears, lawyers fighting rape crimes not teenagers deliberating about virginities.
What about drama in your own life? Do you have it? Do you crave it? Can you live without it? Because my life is dramatic enough for everyone. And when i don't have it, i crave it, and when it seems to be resolving itself i wonder how in the world things will ever stay interesting. Of course in the middle of it I wonder how i got here, if i'll ever learn, if you can ever back up and try-again, say sorry sooner, shut your mouth earlier, notice the top of the downward spiral before falling helplessly into it.
Do you ever get this way? Do you ever learn???????
Is it trendy to have drama but to manage it, or to stay uninvolved entirely? Is it trendy to leave the drama to the actors?
I say a little angst here and there can help us all learn lessons faster, teach us who we are sooner, and generally make your day a little more interesting...if you crave interesting....
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Comment by David
You did ask.
I can only speak from a personal perspective here. As in, my own personal opinion. As in, I, myself, me, personally think from a male perspective ...
The reason I can't live without drama in my life? ...
I can't live without a woman in my life, I guess...
Sorry for the brief reply ... but me and my beer-guzzling mates are going to see if we can shoot, root or electrocute a few bush-pigs in the outback ... ****
Women? Drama? Can't live with either, can't live without??? *******
David ...
And don't you dare take anything of what I've written seriously ... or go into Net Drama Queen mode over it, either ... ****************
Comment by Joanna
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like i said, drama: i hate it, but i love it....
so i guess i can't prove you wrong!
Comment by Chantal
I've led an uber (mostly self-created) dramatic life but now I am very much settled. I still crave drama somewhat but prefer other people's to my own!
Comment by Joanna
i know what you mean about craving other people's drama. someone it seems when i want just a taste i get sucked into the whole "misery loves company" phenomena and people insist on dragging me right in to the middle!!
i guess i should stick to my lovely TV drama's