Okay, roundabout random question for all of you.

Life Drama: Love and cause it? or Hate and avoid it?

Basically, there's no way to completely avoid things like not getting along with someone and clashing or something just to disrupt your day/week/month/year.

However, there are some who enjoy being the instigator of said drama and thrive off of it. It makes their day. Puts them in a good mood!

Then, there are those who hate it. Want to avoid it as much as possible, and - safe to say - are too sensitive to deal with it. It crushes them and puts them in a horrible mood or gets them down.

Or maybe it's neither: you just don't care. It happens, so why let it get you down?

In a nutshell, which category do you (think?) fall under?

I've come to realize that I'm a mixture of the two extremes. I like to avoid drama since it has a tendency to put me in a bad mood, but when it happens - in the heat of the moment - I thrive. I enjoy it and I can get a good laugh out of it, in the end. I don't get into disagreements much (rarely, if ever), but of the few, they make me laugh.

I dunno, it's hard to explain, but whatev's.

I loathe it. Then again, I'm avoidant, so it makes sense. I'm sure I, like many others, have a bit of that inner demon that thrives off of it at times, but (like many other things) I try my best to repress it (and am pretty successful at doing so most of the time, I think). Otherwise, if I get involved, "win" or "lose," I'm usually pretty heavily damaged by it, even if just temporarily.

I don't really interact with people that much to begin with, and I don't seem to be targeted by such drama, but I try my best to avoid it anyway. If I do get involved, I try to be logical about it, and just find the quickest way to end it. ...Much of the time, it ends with me just ignoring the person, and they generally leave me alone after that. At least from my few (better) experiences throughout school, that is.

But, of course, that's not to say I'll ignore it when friends of mine are dealing with it. I try not to get personally involved, but I'm usually pretty quick to try to help a friend through it.

I'm neutral. I never really try to avoid it, but I never really try to instigate anything either. Sometimes I need to get stuff off my chest, and I suppose that that is when I become an instigator, but I never flat out bring things up in public.

I understand that everyone has their own drama to deal with too, so I don't usually divulge too much. But I'm always willing to listen to people (and thus become part of their drama). I'm told I do this too much though, lol, and I become part of things that I really shouldn't be a part of, not because it's not my business (which it usually isn't anyway), but because, I'm told, I don't need to be part of that. I have enough on my own plate, apparently. I realize it's hypocritical of me to say this (I've been accused of it plenty of times), but if I trust a person enough, I'll open up more, and bring them into my world of drama. This "I share, now you share" crap doesn't work for me. If I'm willing to help out, I'm not going to go into my problems yet. =p

An old friend of mine though would love to instigate stuff. It would be totally random, and it could be something that happened three months ago, or five minutes ago. She lives on drama, and lives on putting other people down. Eventually (it had been a couple years at this point), I got fed up with it and we're no longer friends. in that sense, I was totally avoiding it.

I'm told I put up with a lot of crap, and a lot of drama by relation, but it doesn't really ever phase me. Eventually I won't be able to handle something, and that's when I'll try to talk about it to someone, but I don't go actively looking to cause drama.

I went kinda off topic, but it's almost 2 in the morning, I'm tired, and rambling. =p

Eh...Hard for me to answer, really. I despise getting involved with said dramas, but they're always going to pop up in life, so I just do my best to cope with them...

Love and avoid it =). If it loves me, it'll come back to me sometime.

Drama happens around me. Never am the cause or even in it. But I've witnessed it. Honestly, it seems retarded.

I don't like dramatics either. I always tend to avoid it, as it usually doesn't go anywhere.

I'm neutral, for the most part, but I do tend to avoid it more for one very big reason - If I get involved (which isn't often), I tend to take things to an extreme. I let myself get too absorbed in it, and something very small becomes something very big when I dwell on it too much, which is often the case. So yeah, I prefer to stay away from it, but whatever happens, happens.

I am prone to drama in the sense that I can have so many things to say to so many people, but at the same time I'd rather not and keep the comments to myself. And if drama happens to find me, as it tends to in my situation (living in a dorm room with 14 other girls? Something's bound to happen), I usually get a cool kick out of it.

But I don't mind being involved in it. Something interesting to experience, I guess? o___o

Generally I avoid it, but can handle it when needed. My ex girlfriend was the opposite, she thrived off it - going out with a 'drama-less' person like me just sent her bonkers. So yea that didn't work out for obvious reasons, which is good cus my current missus likes to WATCH drama, but avoids it in normal day to day activities - which is good by me.

Only with those very few people who are important to me can I get dramatic, rarely. Anyone, or anything else, don't faze me, unless they're hostile or sprouting a tirade.

Anyway, drama is a nuisance and a fuse for release at the same time. If you don't have important people, then you don't need it because nothing accumulates.