“Distractions” (drama) 2 minutes

Monologue Description:  “Distractions” is about sharing your life experiences with a loved one, who is being faced with their own life lessons.

Character Description:  In this monologue, GRANDPA (73/male) enlightens his Grandson, by sharing his own wisdom of hard knocks. 

Character Background:  Grandpa is a self made business man.  He struggled early on his is life, coming from a poor family in Texas.  When he married, upon coming back from the war, he married the only woman he ever loved, Adelaide.  Grandpa (real name Mitch Frederickson) had dreams of becoming a wealthy business owner in retail.  His dream was to build his own successful retail store.  In order to begin his passion, with no money and no relation with the banks, he he put his pride aside and borrowed enough money to open his retail store, from Adelaide’s own father.  Although his father in law gave him the money to borrow, he as many people, did not believe that Grandpa could fulfill his ideals.  Nevertheless, the money was given and Grandpa built not one store but a chain of stores across the country. 

Although his Grandson is an artist, he draws a correlation between the two careers, in order to create knowledge for his Grandson and teach him how to face adversaries.

Character Circumstances:  Grandpa gets approached from his beloved Grandson, who is depressed by critics in his artistic profession.  His Grandson is contemplating as to whether or not he should continue his work.  In order to keep his Grandson’s dreams alive, Grandpa provides him with sound advice. 

GRANDPA:

Listen to me son…if you let the negative people you cross paths with in your life, affect your work, then they win.  That is the only way they can win.  If you don’t allow them to prevent you from growing as an artist, YOU win.  Art is a tricky thing my boy.  It takes a lifetime of patience.  No one is born perfect.  Life shapes you.  Both good experiences and bad experiences make you who you are and help you grow in your craft.

You will always encounter the naysayers, the critics and the haters as the phrase is used nowadays.  But that’s okay.  Just accept it and move on.  You have nothing to prove and will only gain something by focusing your efforts by doing what you believe in. 

I spent my life building my store enterprise.  I’ve had people telling me it was impossible.  People telling me I would amount to nothing, criticizing me, telling me that they would NEVER shop in my store.  Years go by and I’ll bump into one of these people, only to find them in aisle 3, in the shampoo section of my store.  Ha!  Do you know what I do?  I look at them dead in the eye and I smile and I offer them my services and I thank them for coming.  I don’t believe in revenge or “getting back” at people.  If you do make mistakes in such case, and you will, I assure you, LEARN FROM IT. 

When you provide something of yourself that you are passionate about, don’t ever let it go because of what other people think.  Sometimes people won’t get it, they will misunderstand, sometimes people fear you and other times they simply hate for no reason whatsoever.  Or they think they have a reason but are sadly mistaken.

You will do fine.  Just do what you love and I promise you, as long as you keep working hard, people will come into your store.

(he smiles warmly)

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