“Higher Than A Kite” (drama) 2 Minutes

Monologue Description: “Higher Than A Kite” is about changing your life from being a drug user.

Character Description: Ron shares his story with a young boy who is on the same road that Ron was once on at his age. Ron is a drug counselor for young people with drug problems.

RON:

I started using drugs when I was twelve years old. Where I grew up, that was common. I didn’t know any better. All I knew is that it felt good. It’s how I first got laid, just don’t remember how it happened though. I went on this way for fifteen years. Nobody around me ever knew. I always kept it secret. I was always good at hiding the truth. I could be higher than a kite and I could come across as being straight as an arrow. Nodody ever could tell.When I was in my early twenties, my heart just stopped. I was sitting on my couch, watching a basketball game and then whop. I went into cardiac arrest. I didn’t know what hit me. I made a move for the my phone but I collapsed.An hour later, I was found by my brother. If it wasn’t for him, I would have been dead today. During that hour of unconsciousness, well, I guess you can say I was reborn. It changed my life forever. Now, I’m not talking about becoming a religious freak and reading every line of the bible. But something did happen that I can’t explain. It was a feeling.While I was out, I found myself standing on the beach looking out to the ocean. I giant wave was headed for me but I wasn’t afraid. I’m talking a wave like the size of a building. For some reason I was calm, I wanted it to hit me because I was so fed up with my life.The wave came over me but it was as if it went through me. Like, it went through me and it took all the shit that was living in my system for so long. It took away my hate, my anger, all the drugs flowing through my blood stream. And then the wave was behind me and I found my self standing on the beach again, looking out at the ocean. Everything was calm. Everything was beautiful.I woke up suddenly in a hospital bed. I was resuscitated. My life was spared and forever changed.

Now I talk to young kids like you, sharing my story, so you don’t make the same lousy mistakes that I made. You may not be lucky like I was.