10 Meta: Deal With It

[partly]

tvrealm has a prompt where you are supposed to claim 10 words and do something off of them. "Meta" was one of the choices, so I'm going with that. This post's prompt: Deal With It.

Madeline Westen: “I’m not talking about closure. I’m talking about good old fashioned gutting it out. You know what families do, when people lie, betray each other? They suck it up and move on”

Dean Winchester: “That’s what family does -- the dirty work. . . . you can be pissed all you want, but quit being a bitch.”

I’ve never been able to hold a grudge, to me it’s like voluntarily tethering yourself to a particular place in time -- and a particularly unpleasant one at that. Things like “the silent treatment” is jsut so blatantly passive/aggressive and self-destructive. There’s no moving forward, no progress, no growth in letting vindictiveness consume you. It’s probably why I’m drawn to characters who work through their problems -- and by that I mean, they keep working even though they have problems.

It’s why I prefer action shows over drama. Action shows, by their nature, force people to move on, to keep moving forward. Drama, on the other hand, can spend endless hours lost in angst, moping around doing nothing but navel gazing. Don’t get me wrong, I understand the need to take some time, to figure out what you feel and what happened, how to go on and what should and can be done. But then something should be done.

Be pissed. Be angry. Then suck it up and move on. Shows -- and characters -- that do that... they’re always my favorite.