In life you will meet people who seem to just love the drama. They gravitate towards it, they embrace it, they seem to generate it if its not present. The idea is that it needs to always be there somehow. You ask yourself, Why? The answer is always the same.
Most of the people that love drama, don’t do so because it gives them joy. They obviously suffer through the situations they attract or even create. To attempt to rationalise it, is almost impossible and I know a few that suffer in the attempt to do so. So what could be reason? Why would someone need drama in their life? Could it be a misdirected attempt to be relevant?
Misguided Purposes
I happen to believe this is the case, at least most of the time it is. If there is no problem, if there is no issue that needs to be resolved, there is no purpose to the dramatic’s existence. That sounds a little harsh, but I happen to think that there will be those who will agree with this observation.
If there is an issue, they are needed. If there is no issue they are not. The solution is simple, let's create some issues.
I say this with the understanding that most of this behavior comes from an unconscious place, from people who are not aware they are attempting to be relevant via the wrong means. Truthfully if they would know they are acting this way, if it was presented to them efficiently, they might even stop, but the word efficiently is hard to attain.
So what do we do? What can we do? Maybe nothing, maybe the trick is to learn to recognize these semi destructive patterns and learn to ignore them. After all, who needs drama?