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Monologue Mania Day # 1389 Jenga Life by Janet S. Tiger (c) Dec. 3, 2017
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Monologue Mania Day # 1389 Jenga Life by Janet S. Tiger (c) Dec. 3, 2017
Jenga Life
A monologue by Janet S. Tiger (c) all rights reserved 2017
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(The actor enters carrying a box, which he places on a table or chair-or the floor if no other surface is available- he will now show what is in the box is a stack of Jenga sticks)
Life Jenga....... the fact is my life..... it feels like it's piling higher all the time...... a piece of support is taken out and put on top....
(He shows how this works)
...... so it's no longer support....... it's just a problem weighing down on me...... when will the support come out where everything collapses, that's the game...win....lose....but in life.....the game is different....the loss hurts more......
It's funny that when you're young you have a different type of worry....... will the person like me will I see them again ..........are they what they appear to be....... is there more to them ....less than what I hope.....what's gonna happen........
The fact is ......do we ever know who another person is?
......all we can do is hope and yet...... and yet.....
The reality of life is very strange ........truth is a Fickle lover.
For years everything remains the same ........just like in Jenga ........it doesn't fall down....just keeps getting higher, and higher....... and then one day something happens.....something new......like..... a skate park opens...........down the street......where there was a park your kids would play in when they were little.......and it takes them years to build to park........and you drive by.....and a kid walks in front of your car......... or maybe not walks but skates in front...... you jam on the brakes...... do you hit him? ....do you miss him?....... if you miss him .......the Jenga stack holds........ if you hit him...... then the whole thing falls a crumpled heap ......and unlike the game of Jenga .......not so easy to clean up....
But if you don't hit him..... the pile gets higher........ each time you pass some of these kids...... another brick goes on top of the stack.......
Yes ......I know it's not a brick .......it's just a piece of wood ......but in your heart it feels like a brick because you know the laws of probability....the odds are ...that sooner or later that pile has to fall .....the table jiggles .......someone gets hit.......
(He pushes the stack and it falls, he turns to leave, stops, looks back)
Jenga life ......we all live it everyday....it's not if it will happen.....it's ....when....
(He exits to more Jenga life)
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