I'm Just Sayin'

William Shakespeare once penned, "All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances..." 

To with, Rick L. Larstan, PhD, rebuffed, "...and some of these players should take the first stage leaving town."

Drama (sigh) - it's the proverbial traffic accident looming aside the roadway, begging you to take a gander, and (in some cases) your foot off the brake. 

Drama - that idiomatic expression which lends itself to pop culture references such as "drama queen", "save the drama for your momma" and (my favorite misnomer) "unscripted reality television".

 

Ever notice... How everyone else's luggage is just "drama" and when it happens to you or I it's a full-blown "crisis" - even though it could be the exact... same... thing? I'm just sayin'.

The loudest mourner at funerals (typically) isn't a family member (e.g. one defined as being related via blood and/or marriage) - it's usually the person who's spent the least amount of time with the deceased? I'm just sayin'.

At any gathering, the one telling the joke thinks it's the funniest thing YOU have ever heard - and subsequently laughs at their own joke - I figure that if it was THAT funny, they wouldn't have been able to tell it - for laughing so hard - in the first place? I'm just sayin'. 

That as you happen upon someone you haven't seen in ages - one whom you had thought you had inadvertently committed some unspeakable (heinous) act towards - that our typical response to them is "So, how are you doing?" instead of "Where have you been?!" - which is REALLY what we want to say? I'm just sayin'.

When folks bad-mouth a business it's usually done so with such vim and vile that you would've thought they nailed 'em to a cross during their 6.5 minute wait for coffee - but, like so many others will let a barrista go above-and-beyond the "call of duty", and think that the higher level of courtesy is something they were innately entitled to? I'm just sayin'. 

How quickly folks will appear to empathize with you and then (usually) say "Oh, I'll pray for you", when precious few actually do so then-and-there? I'm just sayin'.

That there is an inverse relationship between the high amount of heat needed to cook your food and the low pain threshold you possess at the instant you grab the food item without an oven mit? I'm just sayin'.

To close, in closing, and (in other words) ending this train of thought - you might liken this paragraph to the proverbial caboose, then - whether we are subjected to, choose to participate in, or are (actively) trying to ignore DRAMA... there will always be DRAMA to deal with, while we strut upon this stage. I'm just sayin'. MMLIA.