Meditation for April 13th
Drama
People love theatre. Watching the drama unfold of the human experience draws us in. With great excitement, the audience leaves the theatre and discusses the play’s eloquence and depth. For a few hours, we were out of ourselves. We have been looking to drama and tragedy for entertainment since we started communicating.
People also love drama in real life, as we look to the media that destroys people’s lives for our entertainment. We will poke and prod into their lives to learn the pain that haunts them. Other people’s pain relieves our own. Seeing someone in great standing falling gives us such great joy. An entire industry called reality TV was born out of this desire to watch other people’s suffering and drama.
We now have a platform to let others know how we feel about other people and cause drama. We can say terrible things online anonymously to trigger people. We might comment on a famous person’s weight or looks as they age, and see the drama unfold as half the comments defend the person we have insulted, and the other half support our trolling. We will love or hate a celebrity more than we will take the time to take care of ourselves.
We can hide our insidious desire for drama under good intentions. We pretend we want to mediate between two people. This is the only way to be a part of the action without being the action itself. We listen to the different sides with faux concern, then use them against that person, making them go on and on indefinitely. We play the devil’s advocate, or say, for the sake of argument, and nudge the two to stay mad at each other so that we can spill the tea with our friends.
When we are one of two sides, we keep trying to prove ourselves right over and over again, driving the other side completely insane. We become a maniacal villain, laughing hysterically as we hit send or post. The less important it is, the more argumentative we become; we clench our argumentative hands around the person’s neck. If we aren’t driven mad by trying to be right, we get huge amounts of euphoria, taking someone down with our powers of argument. Just being right gets us high. Having other people think we are right is a mind-blowing orgasm.
We ask if people are okay for no other reason but to find out what theatre is happening in their lives. We relish the mistakes and the justice that permeates some people’s lives. We find ourselves drawn to getting as close to the middle of the drama storm as we can without falling into the abyss because of the loneliness and inadequacies we feel.
Whether we cause drama or we sit on the sidelines, relishing in other people’s misfortunes, like betting on a cock fight, we shout encouragements to keep the strife alive.
Basically, enjoying other people’s misery gives us happiness.
Prayer
The Jesus between the baby and the rebellious Easter one,
I’m bored to death.
I think I’ll prove this person I know wrong.
It isn’t important.
It costs no one their lives or even their safety,
It doesn’t hurt anyone or change anything,
But to make a person react.
I just want that person to seethe in resentment.
It only matters that I look like “I’ve lived saying…”
If I lived in ancient Scandinavia,
I’d be a Troll.
I’m just bored,
And I am unsatisfied with my life,
So I will drive a woman mad.
The Jesus who fell for one of Satan’s temptations,
Give me strength as I ask someone if they are okay.
I mean, really okay.
With a knowing nod,
And an all-knowing
As if all-knowing now.
All I want is the drama,
The gossip,
The theatre of people’s suffering.
I love tragedy.
It is like comedy to me.
People falling and failing,
Is like heroin to me.
I need to be standing above others
In all my perfect glory.
Even though I am dying of loneliness, from complete loneliness and lack of connection to others. This is how I can actually feel like a human being because I think my feelings are the only way I can know emotions, and it’s only by watching others drown in them. I am Spock. I am Data. I am any of the androids from the Aliens franchise.
Amen.
Craft
Here are some ways to help cause drama.
1. Hear someone about their significant other and then tell the significant other what that person said. Play it like you’re concerned.
2. Have strong opinions about who your friends date. When they tell you about their new person, ask if that is the best they could do.
3. Help your friends “understand” a person, but you’re really saying that person is a real piece of shit.
4. Pretend a person’s humanity is a plague on humankind.
5. Take up a cause against someone’s belief and keep hammering them, with fact after fact, why their belief system is wrong. Wrong. WRONG!
6. Be a mediator and a devil’s advocate at the same time.
7. You are always right, they are always wrong, and never compromise.
8. Remind someone about something painful or embarrassing that happened a long, long time ago every once in a while.
9. Gossip, gossip, gossip. Always know who is up to whom, what, sleeping with whom, and failing at what. Make sure many people know…you know, because you have to talk about it.
10. If all else fails, make something up.
Goal
You need drama. You aren’t a helpful, altruistic person; you are an agent of chaos. You need people’s shortcomings to give you excitement. You pretend to help, but it’s just to ignore your own worthless life.
Get several cats and then sit up, it’s cats, and pretend they are having drama. Tell stories about your cat. This will keep you away from destroying people’s lives.