Drama queens. Am I right? Need I say more?
Okay, I’ll say more. Specifically, I’ll say this: For drama queens, in life the journey is not the thing. Dissolving altogether, thus closing the script of your current life, is definitely not in the cards. Being in love with yourself as the character in turmoil is the whole of the play you game.
Whether you’re gaming the play or playing the game of being in love with yourself as the character in turmoil, you cannot play alone. You can, however, be alone as a person in actual turmoil. That can happen. But when you’re playing a character, you need other people to fill other roles that give shape and strength to your character. Sometimes their role is simply to be an audience. Often, that’s not enough for drama queens. They need other characters in their play to bounce off of. Like a tornado sucking in towns and churning them into the junk of town dumps, drama queens need the aliveness of people swirling around them, for them, and within them.
Sometimes drama queens behave this way on purpose. It’s the only way they’ve ever known. Sometimes they are unconscious of their behavior. It’s the only way they’ve ever known. Either way is the same way and both are not only psychological dysfunctions but metaphors for the oneness self-identity they are denying by playing God.
But let’s not be too hard on the poor drama queen. If such a one didn’t avoid oneness self-identify this way, it would be another. The paths of denial are infinite. Everywhere out there is a script with your name on it. We are all in this together.
In this mental ward we mistakenly call human nature, playing games, gaming the plays, and doing community theater.