Drama

The other day, I was hanging out with a friend, let’s call him Jimmy, at his dorm. We were chillin, listening to music, and talking about how stupid our quiz was from earlier in the day. His roommate Don walked in, and started complaining about his day. Don went on and on about how stupid things are and how life isn’t fair, and ended everything with “Fuck my life.” I found it kind of sad, and couldn’t help but feel compassion for the dude. He just seemed really sad about a lot of things in his life.

After his roommate left, Jimmy complained to me about how annoying it is that his roommate walks in, day after day, complaining about a lot of the same stuff. He said that Don would walk in everyday and tell him how girls are stupid, how professors are stupid, how his family is stupid, and how almost everything is stupid.

The conversation turned into how it’s funny how Jimmy and I go through our lives with relatively no drama, while Don was going around everyday, complaining about how terrible his life is.

I brought up the point that there’s no way that it’s simply coincidence that Jimmy and I have relatively no drama in our lives, while Don seemed to have as much drama packed into one day of his life as Jimmy and I will have this entire year combined. Surely, there has to be something in the way that Don goes about his life that brings all that drama onto himself.

Obviously, there is the chance that it might have just been a particularly bad day for Don, and that by coincidence, all this drama seemed to fall into his lap. But if he seems to have all this drama throughout the entire year, then the chance for coincidence becomes smaller and smaller.

I’m no psychologist, but I think that a little bit of Don enjoys the drama. Maybe he enjoys the attention he gets from being able to complain about his day to others. Maybe he enjoys the bickering with others. Maybe he likes to be in the spotlight. Whatever it is, I found it hard to believe Don when he said, “Gah, I hate being in drama.”

Life has enough drama without bringing more drama onto yourself. So if you ever find yourself becoming something like Jimmy’s roommate, complaining day after day about how your life sucks, maybe you should consider looking deep inside yourself and seeing if you can do anything about it.