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We Keep Going : Monologue

Description: everyone is stronger than they think. You can't possibly think otherwise. Your inner thoughts can easily prove how tough you are. You shouldn't undermine you mental strength. The voice inside your head has a lot to say about what you can do. Just read it.

Slow down.

Close your eyes.

Take a deep breath.

Just listen.

Do you hear that? The wind rustling the leaves? No don't peak. Just listen. The honking of the car horns, the pitter patter coming from a cracked pipe. The click clack of heels going past you.

These things make sense. It's always happening. No questions asked, life moves forward. The wind is always blowing and the leaves are always rustling.

Now open your eyes.

As you look up there are trees holding up the leaves that continue to be pushed by the wind. Cars are speeding down the road some going too fast. The dripping pipe is a little too close, the droplets forming a little puddle next to your feet. You turn to your right and see a lady's red stilettos hitting the pavement.

Why can't everything be like this you wonder.

How come a routine has to be disturbed?

Eventually you will have to leave this bench. In a matter of time you have to leave this town. Maybe not forever, but you will eventually.

You will continue to make sacrifices that inevitably shake things around. Choices will be made in order for you to adjust.

Things will have to change because life continues to push you.

Now blink.

In the amount of time it took you to do read and follow the directions of the sentence above, you spent two seconds of your life. You can't get that back.

Time is pushing you to your limit. You are constantly trying to keep up with the latest trends, adjusting your watches during daylight savings, texting a friend for an update on a task.

Some of us choose to escape it all. We open up books hoping it will take us to another world. With a click of a button we watch someone else's fantasy unfold. By putting in an earbud, we block out the sounds of the changes being made around us.

But eventually it ends.

At some point reality comes crashing in.

It was a beautiful world. The characters seemed so real. The vibrations made your heart race.

We are never ready. No matter how much we prepare, there is always a surprise. We learn that there are those who love and hate them. It doesn't matter to which group you belong, the events to come will be set into motion.

If you look at the statistics, we shouldn't make it. We shouldn't be able to make it this far, not with all the obstacles continually put in front of us.

But we did.

We keep going.

Some of us longer than others.

Do you hear that voice in your head? The one reading these words to you? Unconsciously you have been telling yourself that there's a way. I don't know how you're doing it. You probably are just as clueless about it as I am.

Maybe that's part of the journey.

Tell yourself that the future throw anything in your way.

I'm not saying it won't hurt. Pain is inevitable.

The future is a gigantic ball of stories to be told, worlds to experience. Escapism is a resting time, not a lifetime.

Fears will come and go. But don't fear the future.

Now slow down.

Close your eyes.

Take a deep breath.

Just listen.

Now what do you hear?