DRAMA!!!!

Ever have one of those days when your brain begins to experience technical difficulties?

If you do, i feel sorry for you, but i can’t say i have ever felt the same.

Which leads me to my next point: empathy is overrated.

Consider ye this, if everyone felt everyone else’s pain, then no one would really have any pain of their own. If they did have personal issues that caused them trauma, they wouldn’t notice, because they’d be so empathetic to every other drama king/queen's dilemma. And then of course you’d have people who are empathetic, with no personal issues of their own, so they take on other people’s issues as their own through their empathy.

I hope I haven’t lost anyone.

Needless to say, this usually leads to one of two places, either a very terrible place full of rats, dust, slime, and war mongering, or a support group.

The first place would be better, since it would have an “every man for himself” attitude toward things.

The support group would turn ugly very quickly and result in massacres or group harry carry. Or it would disperse and its member’s would go off to wallow in their misery, their only source of help and release being diminished.

Now you see why empathy is not so great after all, don’t you? But even if you do, you’re probably not going to follow my next bit of advice. However, if you do take my advice, congratulations on acquiring a happy life.

Look deep within yourself, and consider all the petty little issues that are not your own, that you feel you have to worry about. And then stop.

Here is a visual aid:

Those who live in petty-drama-land

Those who don't.

 Why stop? Because, for starters, it’s not real empathy if you’re just worrying about someone else’s petty drama. Real empathy is going to a funeral and feeling sadness to a certain degree with the family, even though you didn’t know the guy. Empathy is rejoicing at someone’s birthday party with them, even if you really don’t care if they’ve turned 10 or 110.

Also, letting other people’s petty drama, or your own for that matter, consume you…it’s just unhealthy. 

The court is adjourned.