Monologues
Getting Lost In Your Head
Everybody loves a good story. We love to see a protagonist face seemingly unsurmountable challenges, a hopeless underdog facing injustice, managing to beat the odds and come out on top, restoring both balance in the world and faith in humanity.
Although the hero’s journey is a popular theme in books and movies, we don’t have to travel far to see it because this journey takes place several times a day inside our heads. Everyday, we engage in interpersonal relationships that challenge us. And when we’re unhappy with a social interaction, we often walk away feeling slighted or irritated, only to start a familiar monologue in our heads, a story centered on a painful past and focused on preventing a painful future.
Humans are skilled and neurotic thinkers. Everyday, we assess, plan, rehearse, and obsess our own hero’s story starring none other than ourself.
We create monologues, stories we tell ourselves daily, usually after some disappointing interaction…
