After clicking off of countless monologues, “STILL” by Naomi Iizuka was the one where I felt that indescribable feeling we get when something just “clicks” within us and makes our heart sink just a fraction, but even that slight shift is enough to know that this is the one.

“STILL” is about finding your own peace among the hustle and bustle of everything around you. For some odd reason, everything has to be constantly moving and changing. When you think you’ve finally found the right job, or right relationship, or whatever it is that you’ve been searching for, there’s always something that has to go wrong. And from then on, it’s back at square one.

This monologue resonates with me because of how honest and relatable it is. Despite countless attempts at adapting or venturing out, there always has to be a wrench somewhere. I can vouch for Naomi in regards to the idea that being at ease with ourselves tends to come from unexpected, little things in life.

Naomi’s description of feeling the “life buzzing right through” her as she lay in the grass is where she says she became “still” — the ephemeral clarity satiating her mind and America.