There’s a cable channel whose tagline is “We Know Drama.” I crack up every time I hear it. If there’s anyone out there who has a corner on the drama market, it’s the human soul.

I like this exchange between Jerry Maguire and Dorothy Boyd in the movie “Jerry Maguire”…

Jerry: It was laziness, my breakup with Avery.

Dorothy: It doesn’t just happen. Somebody is always to blame.

Jerry: You work at it like you do a job.

Dorothy: Maybe, love shouldn’t be such hard work.

Jerry: Yeah, maybe so. But it’s not every day you say goodbye to a woman like that.

Dorothy: I know what you mean. It wasn’t like my marriage to Roger was any good, even before …

Jerry: Before…?

Dorothy: Jerry… Let’s not tell our sad stories.

“Seeing oneself as a victim is an element in many egoic patterns, such as complaining, being offended, outraged, and so on.

Of course, once I am identified with the story in which I assigned myself the role of victim, I don’t want it to end…If no one will listen to my sad story, I can tell it to myself in my head, over and over, and feel sorry for myself, and so have an identity as someone who is being treated unfairly by life or other people, fate or God.”

(Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth - Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose, p. 89-90)

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