Eckhart Tolle explains how the ego feeds on drama by amplifying emotional reactions to difficulties. Drama isn't the problem itself but the story we layer onto it, creating a loop where dwelling on the reaction intensifies it. The ego thrives because conflict makes it feel right and others wrong.
The Greek philosopher Epictetus, roughly 2,000 years ago, said— now here comes another quote, make sure I can remember it— he said, drama happens when fools come face to face with the difficulties of life. Life's difficulties. Drama happens when fools encounter difficulties. What does that mean? It means the way in which you react to the situation, the so-called difficulty, amplifies the situation and make— and transforms it into drama. Ah. And then you can't stop thinking and talking about it, and you become more and more emotional, and you cannot separate the situation From your reaction to the situation, they become one. You don't know that your reaction is what makes it really bad. It's a challenge externally, yes, but it doesn't need to become drama. And some people live in such a state that they they're almost because they've lived like that all their lives. They're almost waiting. For the next thing to go wrong, and it usually does. There's something that becomes part of the ego, that is, it thrives on the drama. To the ego, the false self, drama is good. It wouldn't explicitly say that, but it does everything to have more of it. It loves it because it gets much stronger in drama. Drama implies in most cases that you are right, the others are wrong. You are, you are fighting the world in the form of other people.
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