Damned if you do. Damned if you don’t. No matter what you choose, you won’t win. “Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you.” Joseph Heller
Royal Family Dynamics: Analyzing the situation using cards from both decks of DramaGuru Revelation and DramaGuru Relationships illuminates a dark and complex he-said-she-said world of entrapment.
We Don’t Like You! For Lisa Guerrero, the audience existed away from the football stadium, following her via radio as she drove in her car. Once their voices got inside her head, it was hard to focus on anything else.
The “Relationships” deck of cards goes deeper into sorting things out with people who really get under your skin. Don’t get overwhelmed by the number of cards. Just pick out a few and see how they apply to the people and conversations in your life.
Afro Samurai. Some things never change. Gang violence. Political arguments. Corporate back-stabbing. There’s always someone willing to vanquish the person standing in the Number One spot.
Evangelist Joyce Meyer says that her father raped her more than 200 times when she was a teenager. In the spirit of using bad experiences to help people sort out what happened to them, I’ve used Joyce’s story to illustrate how people get stuck in traps using what I call a “DramaGuru Analysis”.
Social distancing really doesn’t work for most martial arts practices. If students don’t return, schools will suffer as owners have trouble making ends meet. Covid-19 scores another win.
No one wants to miss practice. No one wants to feel like a loser or weak for not showing up. But what about social distance and avoiding crowds?
A “friendly” trap is still a trap. “Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you.”