Miguel Campanella performing “Dark Days”

“See The Good” (drama) 2 Minutes

Photo Courtesy This Particular Greg

PERSON:  Too many of us, myself included, get depressed because we get stuck on seeing the crap that goes on in this world.  We let the negative things in life get the best of us on some days.  We forget to see the good.

Where is the good?  It’s all around you.  It’s the way a kitten sleeps curled up on a pillow.  It’s the way a father has a catch with his son or the way a child builds a sand castle at the beach.  It’s the way the moon glows at night or how the sun shines bright…it’s a smile from an old woman who’s dying or the hug a man gives his wife when he comes home from work.  There’s good in the way that same husband hugs his wife at night or the way we can go to the movies and laugh.  There’s beauty with the way a trees branches sway from a breeze or a skyline from a city that was man built.  There’s goodness in invention, literature, science, art…there’s goodness in things we do not understand about this life.  See the good in the bad; see the good in the sad; see the good in tough situations or when people come together for a cause; see the good against the wrong and the good against pain.  See the good.  See the beauty.  See the love.  See the love I tell you.  I TELL YOU!

Never forget this, please.  If I have stood for anything in my life, it is the fact that I have tried to be a good soul and tried to be something positive in this world for humanity.  SEE THAT!

When you come across evil, be strong and remember who you are, remember you are not alone for what is GOOD, for what is right.  Don’t quit; don’t succumb to the negativity.  Don’t you ever give up what you believe in.  Is this reaching you my friend?  Am I reaching YOU?!

There’s beauty in laughter. compassion, understanding, communication, experience…there’s beauty in your life. 

Days are hard.  Other days are worse.  Days exist when you want to die, you feel like you are better off not being here.  There is beauty in those days.  There is glory in those days because in those days, you have the chance to stand up, face it and be strong because that is why you are here.  You are here to give this world something good.  We all are.  Don’t forget that.  Don’t you ever, ever forget that the power of good…ALWAYS WINS!

“Killing You” (dark humor/drama) 1-2 Minutes

Photo Courtesy Mugley

 

KILLER: You might be wondering why I haven’t killed you yet…I’m actually wondering that as well.  Not so sure.  Usually I just do it.  Takes less than a second.  Then it’s forgotten in the next. 

(pause.)

With you, it’s different.  Don’t know why.  I just don’t know why. (beat)  Why?  Why can’t I kill you?  I have no feelings for you whatsoever.  I don’t know you.  We’ve never met.  So strange. 

I guess even the greats have an off night.  Maybe this is my off night.  Maybe.

(pause.)

Should I let you go?  What’s the point?  What do you think?  Should I let you live? 

(pause.)

Yeah?  You think you should live?  I should just let you walk right out of here…Well, that’s something to be hopeful about isn’t it?  Yeah, yeah it is.  Some psycho was about to kill you and then lets you go.  Ha!  What a story you can tell your friends.  Amazing stuff right there.  Don’t you think?

(pause.)

But I have to kill you.  No, no.  Relax.  I do.  I do because it’s what I’m supposed to do.  Even when an athlete is having an off night, he still performs.  I have to perform.  I’m not so sure I could live with myself if I don’t perform.  Letting you go doesn’t make me the star player that I believe myself to be.  (beat)  You understand, right?  I mean it sucks, for you, that I’m gonna kill you now but I’m sure there’s a part of you that understands; even if it’s the tiniest part.

(beat)

Well, I usually forget these things but I think this time around I will definitely remember you.  Take care.

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