Today we'll talk about drama. Not the Morgan Freeman in The Bucket List kind of drama, either. I'm talking about the screeching, obnoxious, teenage kind. We've all seen it, and we've all been stuck in the middle of it, perhaps more than once. I've certainly had my fair share of it, and, as much as my friends and I complain about it, secretly, we live for it.
I'll be honest. If there's not some problem or negativity in my life, I get restless, cranky, and really, really bored. I end up complaining about having nothing to complain about. I expand the "things that really piss me off" list by adding things that never bothered me previously, but, as I've decided of that moment, will start. We all do it, make exceptions to our own rules of getting angry. We all need a place (or, more commonly, a person) toward which we can channel our pessismism! And so, quite messily, our drama is born.
As teenagers we are programmed to say, "I hate drama." We try to believe it, and we all begin our adolecent years respecting the basic two rules of a drama-free life. Breaking either of the following will undoubtedly cause problems:
1. Do not flirt with/kiss/have sex with another adolescent female's boyfriend.
2. Do not shit-talk a female who you either are or were at one point friends with. This gossip will definitely get back to her.
Let's not sugarcoat anything here. Teenage females are brutal and can do a lot more damage to a person with their mouths than with their fists. I'm a self-proclaimed "good girl". I don't drink, I've never tried any kind of drug, and when I stay out late it's usually because I'm watching a movie at a friend's house. I'm little, but I'll willingly admit that my 5'2", 116 pound frame can do a lot of harm to someone I don't like. And I don't even have to touch them to get the job done.
But I'm not talking about damage or consequence here. I am talking about the situations themselves that cause us girls to get to ourselves into sticky bouts of drama. As females, we were born with the idea that attention (even if it is negative) is everything. We all want the limelight, even if it is given to us for the wrong reasons. We laugh and fight and kiss the boys that make us cry because that's how we were raised. We let a little, meaningless event turn into something huge, because that way, all eyes are on us.
It's just what we do. We love drama. I'm sure many females will deny this and describe me as an "attention whore" for saying such a thing. To this I say: ladies, want to fight about it?
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