Creating soap opera in our lives is a symptom of Resistance.
resistance is a force that counteracts
Why put in years of work designing a new software interfacewhen you can get just as much attention by bringing home a
boyfriend.
Sometimes entire families participate unconsciously in a
culture of self-dramatization. The kids fuel the tanks, the
grown-ups arm the phasers, the whole starship lurches from
one spine-tingling episode to another. And the crew knows
how to keep it going. If the level of drama drops below a
certain threshold, someone jumps in to amp it up. Dad gets
drunk, Mom gets sick, Janie shows up for church with an
Oakland Raiders tattoo. It’s more fun than a movie. And it
works: Nobody gets a damn thing done.
Sometimes I think of Resistance as a sort of evil twin to Santa
Claus, who makes his rounds house-to-house, making sure
that everything’s taken care of. When he comes to a house
that’s hooked on self-dramatization, his ruddy cheeks glow
and he giddy-ups away behind his eight tiny reindeer. He
knows there’ll be no work done in that house.
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