The Weekly Mattian! Episode 1: Living in a Soap Opera

Do you ever get the feeling that sometimes it seems life takes on various soap opera characteristics? You walk through the halls or along sidewalks, and around every corner it seems that someone is conjuring up a new rumor that will hit the IM, blog, or texting waves in less than an hour. From personal experience, my life is this Soap Opera. Each day brings with it a new set of drama. People fight, people hook up, people break up, people scheme, people plot, people tell other people they're pregnant and the baby might not be yours! (Well, that one may be a stretch) But this is true! Can you tell me that you don't go through a week without seeing an event that you can immediately relate to a Soap Opera? A good example from my perspective that I see daily is with one of my sister's friends. Her friend enjoyed a long relationship with an older guy, which suddenly came to a screeching halt as all young relationships eventually do. The girl and her mother both think he made a terrible mistake and will run back to her arms any day. They fight, they bicker, they argue, and I am truly sick of it. All of this information brings a very sticky question to mind: Are our lives truly influenced by Soap Operas, or do we influence them? Could it be possible that the writers and producers of the telenovelas actually stem their ideas from the actions of everyday people? That will give you something to think about.