Everyday Canvas

The Melodrama of Drama Queens

Prompt: If you haven't said or done anything intentionally to hurt someone, are you responsible when they feel hurt by what you said or did? And what do you think about the people who act hurt when there is nothing for them to feel hurt about?

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Why should anyone apologize when they haven’t done anything wrong? Even in the case of being wronged, I don’t like people apologizing to me, anyway. That they decide not to do the wrong thing again is enough apology. But I do apologize to people if I have done something wrong and hurt them in some way, but only if. I am not going to apologize to drama queens under no circumstances.

Moreover, some people keep apologizing for everything to make themselves feel better, and not because they realize they have done something wrong. I know some people (women, mostly) who keep arguing a wrong point after saying, “I am sorry if I am doing this or that, but…”

Maybe this is not such an unusual position when a person is competitive or overly ambitious. It just goes to show that, in such people’s minds, doing wrong or hurting someone else can easily be chalked off to guaranteed intentional damage, which should automatically be disregarded and immediately absolved.

Yet, if you happen to cross those people who don’t care whether they hurt others or not, then, may heaven help you. They turn into doubly crowned drama queens. Those people shouldn't forget that such melodramatic queen bees can lose their hives very quickly.

Most of the time, I try to stay away from all drama queens; however, how can anyone stay away from family members or people one works with? The best thing to do is to take Dale Carnegie’s advice: "Do the very best you can, and then put up your old umbrella and keep the rain of criticism from running down the back of your neck." The reason is, we cannot escape from or prevent those drama queens’ hysteria the same as we cannot avoid the rain.