LIFE IS A DRAMA

In literature, a drama is a composition in verse or prose intended to portray life or character or to tell a story usually involving conflicts and emotions through action and dialogue and typically designed for theatrical performance. Therefore, a drama performance implies at minimum a stage, an audience, a script, actors (male and/or female), and characters (roles and parts). There are different types of drama, including a comedy, tragedy, farce, melodrama, and musical drama.

Drama is one of the best literary forms through which dramatists can directly speak to their readers, or the audience, and they can receive instant feedback from audiences. A few dramatists use their characters as a vehicle to convey their thoughts and values. Since drama uses spoken words and dialogues, thus language of characters plays a vital role, as it may give clues to their feelings, personalities, backgrounds, and change in feelings. (Sources: Merriam Webster and Literary Devices)

After reading this definition, we can easily conclude that life in general is a drama, this world is the stage, and we all have a character (a role and parts) to play. The audience is everyone else that is not directly involved in our life’s drama or play, in our own production. We are all actors on the world stage. How good the drama is depends on how good the script is, how well we learn our lines, how well we know our role and how well we play our parts. Everyone and everything have a purpose in the drama and are important and unique not matter how large or small their roles are. Nothing is a waste!

The difference is that in life, there is no director and we were not giving a script, were not told the purpose of the drama, and were not even taught how to act. Instead, we were put in the middle of the drama; were given all types of misleading interpretations of the script, allowing us to deviate and improvise as desired, or as intended by the misleaders; and were left alone to act. Most of the time, we are our own directors and are creating the script, the role and the parts as we go, if we are not following a script already given to us in the form of a “belief”.

By not having a script, by performing without real direction, and by improvising all the time, we start acting and creating our character as we go. At some point in our lives, we think we know our character and the role needed to play. The fact is that most people have lost themselves in playing their parts and the entire play is going awry. This is why we cannot trust most characters anymore. Doctors, lawyers, priests, police, judges, etc., were meant to heal, help, save, protect, and be righteous respectively. Everything seems to have gone wrong and we are losing trust in our fellow actors, in the play.

We cannot continue acting without a script. Making one as we go is not enough and is not in the best interest of the play, the audience and ourselves. This is why everything seems to be so chaotic. We lost the script and the substitute script is for the benefit of the few, and not for the benefit of the whole. We must stop and look for a real script, a script that is meaningful to each of us, a script where the stage is not trashed and destroyed, and a script where we can play our parts to our best so the drama is meaningful, worth playing. It does not matter if the drama is a comedy, a tragedy, a farce, a melodrama, or a musical.

In a real script, each line is there for a reason. We may not understand the reason at times, but they all have a reason. Each character has a role and each role is an integral part of the drama or it would not be there. But more importantly, we must act consciously. Either we do it consciously or we do it compulsively or unconsciously. If we do it compulsively, we think it is real but it is actually an act. This is a foolish way to exist. If everything is an act, at least, we must do it consciously, then life will be meaningful, beautiful.

How and who to be, and what script to follow, are for you to decide. Everything else is not your concern. Most people are acting without a script and will continue acting unconsciously all their lives with no direction. Just making up the plot as they go and thinking that what they are doing is the real thing. Your drama, your life, your karma, is your making! This drama that we are playing is an illusion like shadows on a wall. If so, we must at least play it consciously. When you live consciously, present, the drama ceases to exist!

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Author: Maurice Correa
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