by Angela Hope

Created on: June 30, 2009   Last Updated: July 01, 2009

Living the life of a drama queen is not all it's cracked up to be. To begin with, the prime incentive is worry and to be honest, worry is a negative emotion. Nothing good ever came from worry. You may disagree and say that if you hadn't worried about a certain thing then you wouldn't have fixed it, but it's not the worry that fixed the problem it's you. Yes worry makes you mull things over and over and for some of us it brings us down but if we can use the problem constructively to find a solution then all is not lost especially time.

So the drama queen makes a mountain out of molehill. He or she finds no solution to the problem but more or less just exaggerates it to something that is nothing like the original issue.Not only that the whole thing is personal. It's taken on a level of how it affects that person only and has very little to do with anyone else although the drama queen themselves would never see it that way. The best way to explain is to show by example. Let's take for instance an old dog and the problems associated.

My dog Goldie is 14 years old and for a golden retriever that's ancient. She has arthritis and finds it so difficult to get up that she leaves it till the last minute before she will ask to go outside. Her feeble little bark isn't easy to hear when I'm asleep but I've learned to adjust and those times that I just don't hear her well let's say I can be found mumbling under my breath and sighing, as I pick up the little parcel that she has left me and carry it to the toilet to flush away. When it"s time to put her outside while i am at work all day, I may need to help her up and towards the door but I do it with love and gentleness rewarding her with a tasty snack to take away the disappointment of not being allowed back in this time. I give her a hug as she chews away at the snack with her old worn down teeth and try not to think about the day when she will no longer be with us.

She can't help that she's old, she can't help that her joints hurt and she can't help that she no longer has a very loud bark like she did for years. I still love her and just like as if she were an old relative I have to look after her in her old age and forgive her when things like that happen.

Now let's look at the same situation as a drama queen would. I should be able to do this because God knows I used to be one, but thanks to a wonderful friend he taught me to change the parts of myself I didn't like and that was one of them.

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