“ANOTHER DEPRESSING MONOLOGUE” (drama) 1-2 Minutes

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Monologue Description: “ANOTHER DEPRESSING MONOLOGUE” is a drama about a man who talks to his therapist.

Character Description: In this monologue, Henry James, a middle-aged man, talks to his therapist about his latest bout with depression and how he has been trying to put a positive spin on it all.

HENRY JAMES:

The stress could kill me and everytime it builds up there is a switch inside of me that somehow acts like a coolant. It’s cause I care too deeply about blowing my top…I am afraid that if I ever do, it will be the end of me in some way. The love in me causes it but the love in me prevents it. Make sense? Life, this life I live, is not an easy one but then again, whose life is easy?

I was watching something by Sam Slovick on myspace and I found it to be both sad and inspiring at the same time. Sad for obvious reasons…you have drug addicted people on skid row…that’s depressing. There was this guy named Chuck Nitty who was selling dope and he got busted. He always had the dream of becoming a rap star and he was given 400 hours of community service to a church. It was by going to church that he found God.

Now he follows God and he pursues his music career with his group. Instead of selling narcotics, he’s hustling his CD’s. He also takes care of his two kids.

I began thinking about this man’s struggle and what his daily challenges are. It’s not an easy life. He actually made me feel slightly and I mean SLIGHTLY better about my own life but, I don’t know, I just hope everything turns out okay…these last six months of my life have been nothing but fucking hell but I, I keep fighting and I won’t give up and I believe in my heart that if I keep fighting and I am strong enough to get through this darkness…than, overall, this won’t be another depressing monologue…Great pain inspires great goodness…so, it’s worth living it out fully…