Crisis Mentality

Crisis Mentality

Some people would not know what to do without drama and crisis. So they remain at the control tower, binoculars in hand, on the lookout at all times for the next major disaster.

When no crisis looms on the horizon, they magnify small problems into events of enormous proportions. If the sea is calm for the moment, with not even a small difficulty to liven things up, they simply focus on worrying about something awful that has not happened yet but might at any moment.

They are also talented at becoming involved in other people’s crisis, jumping right in to offer advice and even carry the load as if it were their own.

The reality, of course, is that the only crisis such people suffer from is boredom. They generally need a great deal of excitement and drama to give them a sense of importance and control, and they use crisis to provide them with the stimulation they cannot find in ordinary, everyday peaceful existence.

Wouldn’t it be great, if you could stop for a moment and take a vacation from the crisis mentality mode and  just concentrate on joy instead of sorrow, humor instead of drama, peace instead of chaos, love instead of hate.

There are far more satisfying ways to have fun than manufacturing crisis and drama.

In searching for peace and love, we find love and see a peaceful world.

Seek grace in your life, rejoice in the calm, celebrate beauty and harmony, allow your heart to hold the world in tender awe.

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3 Responses to “Crisis Mentality”

  1. Lucy

    14. Oct, 2009

    This is how my life used to be. I feel very at peace with most of my life now but I find that I have friends who just cant get away from the constant drama. Their drama pours over into my life now. Maybe because I can be a good ear since I am in a calm spell. I see what you mean on the looking for it because I swear that is what they do.

    Lucy

  2. Gaylene Ricci

    30. Oct, 2009

    Personally, I am still a work in progress. I seek progress, not perfection. I was raised in crisis, lived in crisis, and liked my ignorant bliss. I can identify with Lucy. It switched to carrying other peoples drama. After a tragic crash landing, I woke up. Wondering, am I still alive? Eyes wide open; ugly truth in my face – “I give up, Uncle!” I don’t have to take the wheel. I don’t drive. No more game … no more blame.
    Lolly, as you wrote above: “Seek grace in your life……” As I do, my day evolves into a beautiful existence. I am blessed because I simply ‘am’. I am blessed because “He” simply ‘Is’. I make a plan for the day and smile, because I have seen it turn into detours of blessing. People I meet in the grocery store, a telephone call, a surf on the web, where ever…… results in a blessing for them, or a blessing for me, and sometimes both! And gently, I am surrounded in the warmth of love. I smile … and whisper … thank you for driving.
    Lolly, thank you for the reminder. I am putting you in my favorites.

  3. Eleni Liapakis

    06. Nov, 2009

    Lolly,

    I am right there with you….i try to be there for my friends but when they are significance seekers it does make it quite difficult as I really do my best to never come from that place.

    This was a beautiful post. keep them coming.

    Eleni

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