drama drama drama

I was thinking about dramas in general.

Drama vs. Lila.  Drama is like a psychodrama - same story different day, different person kind of thing.  And Lila is the divine play - where we dance, sing and are happiness itself even through life's ups and downs.

And then I thought about television.

And how there's the

1) soap opera drama - the drama where 5 years later, you can watch the show and nothing much has happened because they're still pondering whether or not the people in the show actually have any feelings except bitter, rage and jealousy for each other.

2) the night time sitcom drama - where there are laugh tracks every few minutes to remind you that the drama they are repeating over and over again is SUPPOSED to be funny

but it's kinda sad, really - especially for the millions of people just sitting there for hours watching a dream within a box which is still part of the dream

3) the night time drama drama - like Grey's Anatomy - where the whole mechanism of the repeated viewership lies upon each of the characters NEVER getting what they really want.  You know, we get really caught up with shadows in characters' eyes.  She loves me.  She loves me not.

It's all really quite become boring - television.  The drug of the nation.

And then the MOVIE dramas...the brilliant thing about dramas on Television and Film.  Is that they last - what? 3 hours at the most? 

And each one can ecompass a few years in 3 hours or a few months.  And it's really flipping out the people watching them.  Because we think that fruition, the answer to all of our problems, life, itself should happen in 3o minutes or 2 hours.  And apparently, life nowadays lasts a REALLY long time - 90 years - 125 years?.  And how long it takes an Oak tree to grow vs. how short of a time it takes us to watch a show...get turned on by a concept or turned off by a person in the box.  And how long it takes to attain even an ounce of enlightenment in this lifetime through meditation. 

So why don't we just give up the dramas and play inside our own hearts and minds?  We can really expand beyond the petty ways that brilliant writers have us caught in their traps.  I'm a speed reader - so I can go through quite a few written dramas, novels, plays in the course of a week.  I used to borrow a stack of library books - 20 or so at a time when I was a kid.  And the librarian would ask me if I read all those books.  And I would look at her and wonder what was wrong with her that she couldn't read 20 books in 2 weeks. 

And then I heard that people who watch too much television don't actually develop the portion of their brains that can create.  Because they process everything through the eyes.  And so much of learning that breeds synthesis happens in different portions of the sensory system and the brain.  So those who have their eyes bug-eyed at the television are not as creative - or at least don't get as much done as the people who don't watch television.  Fascinating.  I haven't had a television in a long time.  I can't remember when I last had a television.  But I can still tell you what's going on in TV.  Why?  Because everyone is so tuned in to the Sopranos - that I hear about it...

fascinating stuff. 

Life is a dream within a dream within a dream.  Things are not as they seem.

oh so much love from the universe!