Ever read the personals?
People love to say about themselves, “no drama.” They also love to say they are looking for “no drama.”
Yeah, that makes for a really exciting story.
Movies, for example, are a series of obstacles that deepen and complicate until the protagonist hits a low point (end of act 2).
Of course, if there’s anything you can count on in life, it’s complications although some people do generate more drama then other, they seek out. It seems, in fact, like they can’t bear the calm.
When we go to movies (or read) we like to see other people dealing with drama and then with mirror that in our own lives. That’s what we’re there for! Or we’re writers and we use our own lives at inspiration and tells stories about drama, often we dramatize what we’re writing because otherwise the true story would be too boring. Of course in some cases, if you told the true story, no one would believe it. Either way, a story without drama is dull, and perhaps, so is a life.
When people write “no drama” they mean, no bad drama, no tiresome, ongoing complications that never cease, no sub plots or minor character injecting themselves into the main storyline. They mean, I’m a calm, cool collected person with nothing to impede my forward motion.
Good luck with that…
This made me laugh out loud.