The Dangerously Hidden “Yada, Yada, Yada”
“Seinfeld” popularized this “yada, yada, yada” phrase back in season 8, in April of 1997. During that episode, Elaine even yada yada’s sex:
Not one to challenge Larry David’s brilliance and social commentary, I wholeheartedly agree that at times the yada, yada, yada part is best left unsaid. Yet, I still find it difficult to enjoy a real-life tale, movie, story, or book that doesn’t lend any credence to when that excruciating part is most responsible for the dream becoming a reality.
As many celebrities offer their rags to riches stories of being suddenly found, they correlate perfect timing with being outrageously successful. If the reality behind their tales hides years of struggle and hardship, we are all naively unaware as we are swept up in the amazing lives they share with us through the media.
The biggest illusionists in the yada, yada, yada field are most feel-good movies. They provide us with stupendous tales which lack clear plot points of continuous determination in the face of challenges. “Under the Tuscan Sun,” a 2003 romantic drama starring Diane Lane as a book reviewer, who spontaneously decides to buy a villa in Tuscany and refurbish it, is a perfect example.
While it is an engaging and entertaining flick, it lacks any substance when it comes to the boring logistics of the real world. Any discerning viewer not swept up in the relationship dilemmas of the movie may find themselves asking some important reality-based questions:
- How does Lane’s character access a visa to live in Italy and then own property?
- How does she keep her communications, at home and abroad alive, via cell phone, etc.?
- As a book reviewer, where does her unending source of money come from which helps her deal with the constant financial mishaps that are the crux of the story?
As the movie focuses on an impulse purchase that becomes a life changing decision, the true way the story would evolve in real-life is never entertained. Of course it is only a movie, but the relentless red-tape of international bureaucrats and frustrating dealings with local officials could have been stronger plot points. Instead, those relevant truths are all left on the cutting room floor.
There are no close-ups for the slow-poke drudgeries of the day-to-day as those scenes would not make for an exciting two hour movie. Thus the yada, yada, yada parts stay dangerously hidden when they are imperative for the actual feel-good story to occur.
When the magic of the screen and media moves the dreams of movie characters and celebrity lifestyles along, dangerously hiding the yada, yada, yada, we all suffer. In the movies boring logistics take place magically someplace else and the story still progresses, yet the same is not true in real-life. Those foolish enough to try to replicate the lives of celebrities and movie stories find themselves trapped in the reality of red-tape.
Without minions to delegate responsibilities and challenges to, our real lives become focused upon the yada, yada, yada. We are further left unfulfilled when we are made to think that by investing in celebrity paraphernalia, how-to books, and branded articles, we could grasp a part of those magical, unencumbered lives, actually full of hidden yada, yada, yada’s. Yet, we all know shit happens every day and sharing that often ruins the flow of a feel-good life.
In real-life, these same yada, yada, yada parts are the ones which take up most of our time and energy. It is dangerous to keep them hidden and unacknowledged. Although they drain our energy and excitement, they also provide challenges and our most important lessons. We learn how to wait, how to deal with idiocy, how to understand people, how to find our own strength, and how to move mountains in the face of adversity.
The dangerously hidden yada, yada, yada is undoubtedly a big part of life, whether or not celebrity tales, movies, stories or books admit it. It is up to us to recognize and rightfully acknowledge their importance and significance.
We can decide to wallow in life and its notorious yada, yada, yada’s angrily, making our time difficult and excruciating. Then our focus becomes less on the fantasy and more on the ad nauseam of the hardships we face.
Or, we can somehow lower the volume of the yada, yada, yada’s, and find a balance in their existence, using them to propel forward with knowledge and understanding. Situations we would rather not relive could get a new sense of brevity while we still honored the tenacity it took to move ahead through them.
Neither of these ways extricates the yada, yada, yada’s from our lives, as movies and celebrities do. Yet, both ways make them less hidden and dangerous, while stressing the importance of their relevance.
It is up to us, much like in the “Seinfeld” episode, to choose: 1) make the details of the yada, yada, yada’s in our lives an over the top focus and let them consume us; or 2) powerfully push them into the background, describe them only with a coined phrase, and then wholeheartedly enjoy our lives.
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