Day 146: 5 Minute Freewrite: Wednesday - Prompt: monkey

Here's my Day 146: 5 Minute Freewrite: Wednesday - Prompt: monkey

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The term monkey on my back... I can relate. If your like me at first you automatically picture this monkey perched on top of someones shoulders, sitting there, picking at its hair, or putting it's finger in his ear grinning the big grin you see monkey's do. But really think about it for a minute and you will relate to the guy who has the imaginary monkey on his back. I know I do.

A weight pulls at you, dragging you down down into the depths. You try to pull yourself out but it just keeps getting heavier, the strength you once had worn down to a bitter nothingness. You want to shake him, you want to push him off your back but even if you do, for at least a little while, he's just around the corner smoking a cigarette waiting for you to be venerable and he's found his in. He'll head your way, jump right on and it's as if he's been to the Wisconsin State Fair and eaten even new food item because he's even heavier than before.

You want so badly to push him off your back on your own, you'd do anything to just have a minute free of his weight, but alas you can't do it on your own, he's just too strong... to heavy to shake. You need the strength of two, maybe three, maybe four people. And when that doesn't work? You call in the professionals to help. The people who tame these monkey's for a living, the people who are willing to help and want to help you through everything and anything out there.

Then this monkey, if they don't physically remove him themselves, gets smaller, and smaller, until the monkey is at least manageable, and then someday, maybe he wont even be there. Maybe the monkey will have moved on. You just have to hold on.

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