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Monologue About An Elderly Person

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Karma is a farmer. I planted apples. Why do I harvest potatoes? Why? I mean, I treat people with less kindness than I would like to recieve. Everybody does it. Right? I can’t give, give, give. What would it remain for me? But, still, I want them to treat me better. Because I offer a lot. I am always laughing, I always speak kind with everyone. Isn’t that enough? I want to feel good. I don’t do any harm. I mean, if I’m happy, everybody’s happy, right? Look, I do certain things, nobody is perfect. Sometimes, they tell me: stop doing this, for us it’s not that good. Are they crazy? Who doesn’t want to feel good? How come they don’t enjoy that I’m enjoying? Why don’t they feel good for me? Like when he said I’m cruel, he begged me to stop …show more content…

Maybe he expects you to care for his good state, too? But, that’s crazy. I want to feel good. I’m not doing anything wrong. What difference does it make if he feels he dies of this pain? And, I bet he suffers because I’m having fun without him. He should be happy for me. He’s crazy, he’s really selfish. I am feeling marvelous, why does he bother me?! I wouldn’t bother him in his pain. I just wanna be left alone. I want to just feel good. Here, everybody’s having fun, I don’t want to hear about his pain, it’s discomforting. I hear him on the phone, it’s obvious that he suffers. I don’t like it. It brings pain in me, …show more content…

What am I to say, “I don’t love you”?! I can’t do that. It would mean that... that I am doing things that hurt him. How am I to enjoy this vacation if I think of him suffering? I can’t tell him that. Wow! Now, he beggs me to tell him that I don’t love him. He says he could deal with that. Just let him know that I don’t love him, because he can’t accept that I love him and still do the things I do. He says he can cope with what I am doing if I don’t love him anymore: ”You’re not obligated to love me forever”. It’s incredible. He suffers because I”m having fun. What a selfish man! How am I to tell him that I don’t love him when two day ago we’ve made love? And I was the one that went to him and proposed it: ”Let’s enjoy each other, it’s all that we have”. And he believed me. I can’t do that. “I still love you”, I said to him. He seemed… not there. “I still love you”, I repeated. “We’ll arrange everything when I come home”. “Come on, stop crying”. And, “relax, you won’t die”. Yes, he tells me it’s so bad that he thinks he’ll die. Yeah, right. Wow! Am I really that cold? Am I the selfish one? I mean, I see he suffers. But, it’s not my fault. Right? I am feeling wonderful, I’m having a blast out

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