Charnele’s Monologue

Who are you?

How would you describe yourself?

What do you think?

How do you feel?

…

These are the questions I’m being asked to answer.

Ok, fine…

Would you really like to know my honest feelings?

I honestly feel that it’s quite difficult to express who I think I am to a room full of people, when I’m still on the verge of finding that out for myself.

BUT… If you would really like an answer, I guess I could give you a quick [general] overview of some of my traits:

*Clears throat*

I’m nice, I’m funny, I’m caring, I like to laugh, I’m an over-thinker, I can be difficult, I can get moody, but overall, I’m a nice, positive person.

I, I, I, I, I, I…

Was that good enough?

…No, not really.

Did that truly give you a clear idea of the real me?

No, it didn’t, but hey, at least I completed my assignment.

If you want to hear something real, I’ll tell you this, one of my many passions in life  include getting to know people.

I mean really getting to know them!

Going beyond the general traits and attempting to find the true characteristics that lie beneath the surface.

Life experience has taught me that it is foolish to take everyone’s words at face value (that’s pretty much why I’m not the biggest advocate of this whole monologue thing).

For all you guys know, I could have totally made up everything I just listed about myself (fyi I didn’t, but you get my point).

Life is not about being told/accepting everyone’s version of the “truth”, but instead finding out the real “truth” for ourselves.

And no, I am not trying to be difficult, I just believe that anyone can right down a bunch of nice-sounding adjectives onto a piece of paper and present them to a class as their own personal characteristics.

In my opinion, if you really want to get to know someone, you have to take the time out to really get to know them.

You can’t just just accept the person they claim to be (that’s stupid).

In other words, if you want to know, ASK, INVESTIGATE, STALK, etc.

So, as I conclude my rant, I encourage you all, instead of sitting here, listening and openly accepting all of these monologues as truth, why not take the time to talk to each of your classmates and really get to know them as individuals.

Then and only then will you be able to personally grasp the true characteristics of the people around you.

Isn’t that the whole point of this ridiculous monologue thing anyway?