Drama Kings & Queens
Some people seem to think that their lives aren’t worth living unless they are constantly in a state of panic, annoyance or outright rage. It is so irritating to have to spend time and associate with people that are simply never just happy with being calm.
I guess what I call calm, others might call boring. I’ve often heard these kinds of people say that they find it just about impossible to sit and do nothing for any amount of time. Hell, I’ve spent time on aeroplanes between the UK and the US with one of these people and he was an absolute fucking nightmare. The inability to even sit and watch a 90 minute movie without having to be up and down out of the seat, visiting the toilet just for something to do … I’m not sure anything can even be done for these psychopaths.
But by far, the most annoying thing about them is the way that they will go out of their way to create a stressful situation in their life, JUST SO they can worry, rant, yell and overreact about it, making the lives of the people around them miserable.
I guess what I’m talking about is self-imposed sanctions people take on, knowing that the goal is impossible, only to whinge, complain and blame everyone else when they are not met.
These drama kings and queens need to reprioritize and get some perspective in their lives. Unfortunately, they are the same people about which I have posted in the past. People that can’t see past their own irrational needs. People that see themselves as the centre of the universe and simply can’t understand why others don’t view them that way as well. I would suggest that some re-education is in order, but I think their mindset is a result of years, if not decades of reinforcement of this shitty behaviour from their parents and others around them that don’t have the balls to call them on it.
I stopped being one of those people that don’t have the balls to call them on it a while ago now and I have to say that, while the subject’s behaviour hasn’t really changed in general, my life seems to have collected a lot less of his stress and fewer of his rants in recent months. His life can still be viewed as one very long, very depressing episode of Eastenders, but thankfully, I’m no longer one of his co-stars!
So, this rant really turned out to be more of a public service announcement! If your life is regularly snarled up by an egotistical asshole imposing his idiotic rules on you and your friends, just so he can increase his self-importance and tell you off when stuff isn’t done, I suggest that you call him on it and make him take a good look at how he treats his “friends”.
Of course, the most difficult step is often identifying this negative force in your life for what it is. If you’ve been friends with someone for ten years and they’ve never been any different, it’s not always easy to recognize that their behaviour isn’t tolerable. What clinched it for me was looking at the text messages I received from him and realizing that every one was a request for something, rather than a friendly invite to hang out, or an inquiry as to how MY life is going …
Take a look at your own friends’ last 15 or 20 messages – you may be surprised at what you see.
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