I am so fucking tired of petty drama. Everywhere I am, someone says or does something to someone else and everyone around them blows the whole thing out of proportion. I get it with my friends, in the industrial scene on VampireFreaks, in the Sims 2 community… and I don’t even know who to believe. I don’t know who started it, who’s actually to blame, what even happened. My friends, especially. They gossip about each other behind their backs, lurk in the library to stay away from other people, try to pull others onto their side, and the best part of it? By the time I’ve got my head around “this person and that person are arguing, keep them apart”, everything’s fine again. Then I’ll get used to that, and they or someone else will start another argument.
I’m never a part of it. I actually haven’t ever had a major fall out with any friend, and I never seem to be in the lessons/MSN/FaceBook conversations where the drama starts, so I won’t take anyone’s side since I don’t know anything other than what I’ve been told, which is probably often exaggerated. A whole group of my friends might be saying how much of an arsehole another friend it, but unless I see them being an arsehole with my own eyes then I’m not going to stop talking to them or be a bitch towards them. I won’t completely ignore the fact that there might be an issue, but I refuse to be dragged into petty drama unless I know absolutely for sure that the facts I’ve got are true. It’s how petty drama is turned into somethign overblown - people immediately jumping to conclusions without even hearing the other side of the argument.
As for the internet drama; I know even less there, and I’m content to be a quiet observer. As far as I know I’ve never seriously pissed anyone off or been part of any drama on the internet [apart from one topic on EC, but that was really someone else defending me, who happened to have a lot of other friends who jumped into the argument, so, apart from it being my topic, after the first page the argument wasn’t even anything to do with me]. And I’m happy with that. I’ve never felt the need to be an attention seeker, and I’ve still made friends, been part of amazing discussions and had many people agree with things I’ve said.
So for fuck sake, if you’re one of those people who starts petty drama or turns something insignificant into something huge that divides friends and generally creates tension and unhappiness: get over yourself. Stop making a fuss to get sympathy, stop playing the victim, stop trying to make someone stop talking to their friends and grow up. Life’s short. Arguments don’t make the time we’re given here pleasant at all.
