It turns out that many people — maybe even you — are severely invested in their own drama and suffering.
Before this causes any indigestion in your mind, let’s look at this angle with a different view. Drama, pain, suffering, and controversy are what people buy because it’s entertaining. Just look at nearly every form of media — people buy it because it’s supposedly irresistible. The drama of it all hooks you.
Equanimity, quietness, peace, and inner strength don’t have the same stock because it’s not as provocative. And therefore, you don’t see flocks of people spending their money on this form of entertainment.
I need you to consider this then: Has it dawned on you that your own drama has hooked you and you are investing into it every minute of your day? Has the entertainment of it all grooved you into a pattern to keep the show going?
If yes, there is another alternative angle to receive. Rather than trying to fix the drama using the materialistic Western model, try watching your life from a Belvedere so you can get some space between reality and what you think it is.
To embody this practice, imagine the sun. It shines on everything regardless of circumstance. It does not falter or panic. It allows everything under its glow to arise without any self-centered commentary. It simply allows everything to happen without losing its original essence.
With practice, you can dissolve, are at least shrink, the constant self-referential thought patterns that make you feel like all of your emotions are about you.