Life... Drama

I watched the final episode of Ugly Betty last night. I have to say the drama series finished off its season with style and grace, i was caught off guard by the ending though, nevertheless, there are a lot of truth in it.

Molly died. Daniel was devastated. Matt decided to end his relationship with Betty, as he came to realized that he can never be as good as Betty's first love-Henry. Betty finally landing her dream job as editor, but she fell down from the cloud nine that very same instant when Matt asked her for breakup.... and announced that he will be her new boss.

Drama.

Life in tele is so complex, isn't it? When i watched Ugly Betty, i couldn't agree more. For a second, i was so engrossed in the drama, and was absolutely slammed and excited over the storyline. It was as though i'm on THE right frequency or wavelength with Betty and Daniel, to an extent that i literally felt the need to pour out "i feel you!" to those people whom i dont even know.

And then a thought popped out: "why am i being so emotional over the drama by the way?"

Sometimes we do tend to forget that those people we hold so dear to our hearts were just some created characters.

For ground people like you and me, life is pretty simple and predictable. We start our day with breakfast and jam (i mean traffic jam), sail through the day with the routine in the office, followed by some high calories dinner and ends with occasionally a good movie on tele at night. In a way, life is pretty clear about where we are going and where we are not.

Its funny that sometimes we are not so contented with being ordinary, as ordinary is always perceived as boring. Hence, we create drama to make ourselves more worthy. Consciously or subconsciously. We overdo, over analyze, over magnify the feelings we had under microscope, so that we can somehow hype up the intensity of our emotions, create a scene and make our life sounds more happening or dramatic compare to John or Jane on the street.

The fact is some people do enjoy being a drama queen/king.

We chase things we pretend we don't have - love, friends, and abundance, while worrying about things we pretend we do have - problems, challenges, and issues, until one day we happen to notice that its actually all in our mind and not in the reality.

Putting an analogy: We fret over why the winds sometimes blow as they do. a.k.a. acting 'drama'.

Honestly, we need to admit that our life is not much of a drama. Forget about the earth-shattering-mountain-moving serendipity or life and death you-jump-i-jump titanic love, its considered lucky if your girlfriend is having a mood swing or your boyfriend is ignoring you because of some football match or DOTA games. Well, at least you have something to complain about in front of your mates during those guys hangout night or girls shopping session.

Sad to say, at the end of the day, we realized that the beautiful drama is just a virtual non existence stories created by some boring looking scriptwriter who smoke like a chimney and lives underneath mountains of books. Deep down, we understand that we can never be Betty or Daniel, as what we desired is always in the box called tele and never in our reality.