Keeping Up With The Dramatics

I love this word that my kids have made up (in the spirit of our former president they make up many non-words), it's "dramatical". They love to be dramatical, or to emphasize how the other one is just acting so dramatical in certain tense instances. They love that their grandma teaches people to be more dramatical in her drama classes. Truly, they just don't feel there is enough drama in their world.

I have friends and relatives, even just people I used to know from my town, who fit this word. There is always some type of drama just waiting in the wings for them. I don't know how drama can almost come to life and pick certain people to just hover over. Sometimes I have some drama, we all do I'm sure, but it's nothing compared to these people. I wouldn't say I'm jealous because much of the drama I wouldn't want happening to me, but I do often wonder if I'm missing out on something in my life, is my life just not exciting enough? The thing is, these friends with the lives full of drama, you can't wait to hear all about their lives and what is going on now. I have many minus-the-drama friends, they are great to have conversations with, talk about common interests, kids, humorous stories etc. These dramatical people though, you want to know everything that has happened to them recently because somehow it's unbelieveable that so many exciting, scary, hilarious, disgusting, ridiculous, and sometimes just plain god-awful things can happen to one person. These are the people that you want to have them talk about themselves non-stop, because no other story they have can be as interesting as their own life. Let's do a "for example": This man I used to work with okayed a cell tower to be put on his land, which led to his house being struck by lightning via the tower, which led to it nearly burning down, which led to him living in a repurposed hurricane Katrina trailer, which led to him being unknowingly bitten by a Brown Recluse spider, which led him to nearly losing his arm and could've cost him his life. What? This shit is spellbinding, believe me, I wanted every last detail. And don't even get me started on the story of him & his wife being thrown off a carriage being pulled by a runaway horse. Really, I have no idea what his politics are, what good books he's read, where he shops for groceries, or even who he prefers for the Superbowl. I just want to hear about all the drama in his life, it's far more interesting to me than any show on tv even.

How do these dramatical people get chosen to have all the drama? I wonder if they even know that the events of their lives are lopsided in comparison to the non-dramatical people. I don't think anyone but my mom wants to hear about every last detail of my life. Not that I want to be bitten by a Brown Recluse or thrown from a runaway horse just so everyone finds my life incredibly interesting. I'll pass, thank you.