I'm drama-free and so can you! - Join the EDA Now!
Seriously, we all have friends who have waaaaaaaaaaayyyy too much drama in their life. We wonder, Why? It's not as hard from our perspective... just make a decision & stick to it, whatever it may be.
Perhaps the most frustrating thing about this 'drama' is that it is increasingly negative. We offer good advice, or so we think, often times our friend agrees with us and yet nothing changes. Some time later the same 'drama' arises and we innocently offer the same advice, perhaps with a different spin, and again nothing happens. After repeated offenses, we get tired and stop caring. Our attitude changes from a caring-one to a really-don't-care about this problem. What's worse, we feel like bad friends b/c we still like this person, we just don't like their problems. We can see that our friends do the same thing and mysteriously expect different results. Let me tell ya, not gonna happen!
The Excessive Drama Anonymous club allows friends and drama queens/kings to communicate openly. Friends can be honest about how excess drama is damaging their friendship and moreover our kings & queens are exposed, in a friendly environment, to situations MUCH MUCH worse than their own. Let us use a classic example: World Hunger. There are people starving to death in some countries. People who's biggest worry is what they will eat next and not what they'll do about a relationship they don't want to be in, a bad boss, or the horrible service they just received at a restaurant. We want to illustrate that this type of drama is actually a luxury that can easily be done away with. Of course not all drama is of the same nature, and we don't intend to eliminate drama altogether, this might put reality TV producers out of a job and in increasing hard economic times, we don't want to do that. However, we do want to reduce the amount of excess drama due to selfish, egocentric thinking by exposing our friends to problems much greater than theirs.
Stay posted for the soon-to-be formed EDA: Where people meet to find out how their problems are actually really small when put in perspective.
(Definition of drama-free: Overall positive attitude and positive problem solving skills. Ex: like fat-free milk still has a little fat in it - life will always have a little drama.)
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You know what really grinds my gears? People who complain just to complain. I'm not sure if it's for attention or whatever. I mean, I think it's very necessary to vent in order to relieve all of the pent up negativity, but don't leave it at that. Take action. Why wallow in your own self-pity? You try to give advice to these people, and they acknowledge that your advice is sound, yet, they don't do anything. What can you do? For goodness sake, don't be an Eeyore, be a TIGGER!!!!!
You know what, for a lot of people perception is reality. Their perception is that their issues are at the top of the food chain, and hence, it becomes their reality. That their problems are bigger than others'. And I don't mean to play down other people's problems, because who are we to say what isn't a big problem for someone when that's the worst thing they've experienced.
I think your idea of the EDA would be quite beneficial to these people because it would give them exactly that, PERSPECTIVE, that their issues indeed aren't as big as they think they are.
I do agree though, that it's sad that we get so frustrated that we stop caring...I guess we're not meant to be therapists, ha ha ha.
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