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the problem

with drama

The drama between Zoey and Trinity has been going three days straight. It’s a full-time job keeping up. You finally managed to settle in to work on your presentation, but every time you get an idea, another text pings in.

Drama is crisis. It asks all you can give and then some. You get less

sleep at night and less done during the day, and the emotional

ups and downs are exhausting. You could be learning to dance,

working at a soup kitchen, or biking around the lake. Instead

you’re caught up in a drama that you can’t really do much about

and that doesn’t directly involve you.

Bottom line: Drama can eat up your life.

Yesterday you told Jaycee your secret. Now she’s told it to Taylor. Jaycee is evil. She’s ruined your whole life.

When you’re in a drama, you’re so full of feelings—betrayal,

fury, fear, sadness—that the world seems black and white.

People and events seem either very, very right or very, very

wrong. But in real life not every problem is a catastrophe,

and a friend who’s made a mistake isn’t evil. When you have

a problem with a friend, you need to think and plan in order

to fix it. Does drama help? Just the opposite.

Bottom line: Drama’s a warped view of the world.