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Too Much Melodrama

Have you ever met one of those people that just thrives on melodrama? Maybe you are one of them?
 
Life is life, and it is going along as life goes along, but then a person who bases their life on melodrama come into your sphere of existence and do to their mindset and their uncontrolled ideology they forever stir the pot and make everything into a big something. A something that it should never have become.
 
I know I’ve encountered people like that. And, people like that just suck you into the whatever it is they are melodrama-ing about.
 
I guess there’s just that something in the adrenalizing of the all and the everything that becomes such a drug that some people fall into that pattern. And, in some cases, they can never pull themselves out.  They just keep the melodrama existing and growing and expanding and affecting the lives of all those they encounter. 
 
It’s sad, really. Because most people don’t want to live their life at that level. They simply want to exist and not encounter conflict. But, put one of those people into the mix and BOOM chaos is invoked and it explodes in all directions.
 
From my own life experience(s), I know I’ve had people throw melodrama into the mix of my life. In some cases, from out of nowhere. There have been moments in my life where everything is fine, then that someone, for some reason, motivated by whatever misguided whatever they have chosen to conjure up, decided to blow up my life. Did it give them a sense of empowerment? Maybe? Did they feel they had the right to do what they did? Possibly.  Were they simply acting out of some misguided sense of all-knowing percussion and domination? Perhaps. But, what they did was to set a chain of events into motion that hurt my existence and myself and those I care about around me. So, ask yourself, what is the karma in that? And perhaps, even more importantly, ask yourself, have you ever done that to anybody?
 
I know in a couple of cases, after doing what they did to me, I observed as they got hit with some really hardcore something. Did they look to themselves as the causation factor? Nope. They simply cried, “Woe is me.”  Meaning, that people who operate at this level of life are so unaware of who they are, what they are, and how what they are doing is interacting with the greater cosmos as a whole, that they are too blind to understand that what they are doing not only affects the life of the person they are trying to focus on, but what they are doing ultimately affects their own life, as well.  
 
This is really an important thing to think about as you pass through your life. What are you creating in the life of others, based upon your own motivational motivation? Motivation, whether consciously known or not. What is what you are doing, doing to their life of others? What is it doing to your own life? And, how much of it is based upon nothing more than your own melodrama?
 
Now, I get it… The people who operate on this level are generally so out of touch with their own karmic reality that they do not possess the true ability to study the actuality of their actions. Or, maybe they feel they have the right to do whatever it is they choose to do? I don’t know? Or, maybe they are just don’t care? That’s a possibility. Or, maybe they intentionally want to fuck up the someone and the everything as much as possible? Some people are like that.
 
The thing is, people who do these things are operating in a very negative life space. I can say, stay away from them. But, in some cases, these people attack from afar, and there is nothing that you can do about their chaotic aggression. So, then what?
 
The fact is, there is no one answer. I can say, don’t get sucked into it. Or, don’t let it bother you. Or, they will get theirs. But, all of that means nothing when you are in the middle of melodramatic chaos.
 
All of this ultimately comes down to the questions, who are you? What are you? Are you a creator of melodrama? Or, are you a creator of goodness and peace? Really, who are you?
 
Study your own life. Truly look deep. What melodrama have you created in your own existence? What melodrama have you created in the life of that someone else? Now, ask yourself, what did the creation of that melodrama prove? Did it make anything better for anyone?
 
Ultimately, if you are honest with yourself, your answer will be, no it did not. It did not make anything any better.
 
So, here’s the test, is what you are about to do going to cause melodrama in the life of yourself or anyone else? If it is, don’t do it.
 
Is what someone else is doing creating that chaotic something? …Someone that you do or do not know. If they are, stay as far away from them as possible. And, never allow yourself to get sucked in.
 
Life melodrama is never a good thing. If you’re creating it, stop it! If you’ve done it to others, undo it!
 
The ultimate goal is to live a life of peace and caring and giving. Never embrace the melodrama.