The Drama.

North Cali Sammy

North Cali Sammy

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Would life be a bore without drama? I grew up watching it on television...one problem after another. Some people feed on it.
 
That seems a bit generic.

Drama is just people trying to live their lives, is it not?
Living without it would be ... living alone.
Yes, some people feed on human contact.

I wonder if you're thinking more of melodrama? Which is more like drama for the sake of the drama.
 
DaveC426913 said:
That seems a bit generic.

Drama is just people trying to live their lives, is it not?
Living without it would be ... living alone.
Yes, some people feed on human contact.

I wonder if you're thinking more of melodrama? Which is more like drama for the sake of the drama.
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I think, it is not. It is an excess of what is necessary.
 
North Cali Sammy said:
Would life be a bore without drama? I grew up watching it on television...one problem after another. Some people feed on it.
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What do you mean by drama, here? Drama, literally, is a performance art representing fiction as a play, film , TV programme etc. One can obviously live a happy and fulfilled without exposure to any of that.

It seems however, from others’ responses, that you mean something different, perhaps the stressful situations people experience in the course of their lives. Is that what you are talking about?
 
DaveC426913 said:
That seems a bit generic.

Drama is just people trying to live their lives, is it not?
Living without it would be ... living alone.
Yes, some people feed on human contact.

I wonder if you're thinking more of melodrama? Which is more like drama for the sake of the drama.
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Drama has two mainstream meanings, I think, the first being what exchemist details above (which is consistent from its eymology), and the second being the latter idea that he posts - i.e. simply being something exciting, emotional, or unexpected. Both of these ideas of "drama" can happen with or without other people - such as a rope snapping while climbing solo, or a circuit-breaker plunging your house into darkness, etc. Living alone certainly doesn't remove the possibility of drama from one's life.

Melodrama is also not quite what you are suggesting. Ignoring the historical use of it simply being a performed "drama" with the addition of music/songs (melos meaning music from the Greek), the common usage is not so much "drama for the sake of the drama" but rather it is an exaggerated form of drama. E.g. exaggerated characters, sensational events, and mostly intended to appeal to emotion rather than excitement of action. Modern soap operas are probably what most people would now associate with melodrama, but it would cover the likes of Grey's Anatomy (for some reason medical drama is ripe for melodrama given the emotional ocean the stories can sail), and even Beverly Hills 90210, for those that can recall.
 
Can’t decide if drama is art simulating life or the other way around. I hope it’s the former but how much influence on our own lives stems from watching or reading fiction? I’ll give credit to the writers. There was a soap opera actor visiting our town to do a book signing and there were people there who addressed him by his stage name and also discussed how he could solve various problems on the tv show, as if he was really that person.
 
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North Cali Sammy said:
Would life be a bore without drama? I grew up watching it on television...one problem after another. Some people feed on it.
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Drama is inherent in the lives of intelligent social animals. Conflicts are inevitable. Dramatic literature, film, plays, etc explore those conflicts. Faulkner referred to it as "the human heart in conflict with itself."
 
North Cali Sammy said:
As a teen I had a wonderful dream. I was with a group of other teens, and I was absolute saturated with the feeling of love.
I wonder sometimes wonder if it would be possible to exist constantly in that state of being.
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Yes, it certainly is. However, for many in today’s society, it may require training, discipline, and focus. Just continuously focus on things that make you feel happy, accept the things that don’t but don’t give it any focus or energy. The more you do it the better you’ll get at it and the more blissfully you’ll feel.
 
Zero Point Native said:
Yes, it certainly is. However, for many in today’s society, it may require training, discipline, and focus. Just continuously focus on things that make you feel happy, accept the things that don’t but don’t give it any focus or energy. The more you do it the better you’ll get at it and the more blissfully you’ll feel.
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It's a feeling beyond description. The one word to describe it is "Love." Very intense.
 
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