look fear in the eyes and laugh at him
What She’s Always Feared
A Monologue By
Kelly Beaubien
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One girl, Hanna, stands in the middle of the stage, set up as a busy city street, with the spotlight shining on her. People are bustling all around her but no one is paying attention to her.
HANNA: This world, I so greatly dislike this world. No matter what anyone says, it is so much harder growing up in this time period than it was 50 years ago. Yeah, so they had a war back then where brothers were fighting against eachother and everyone was the enemy. But what about now? What about Irag? What about all the fresh-out-of-high-school kids going over there and fighting for something they might not even believe in? (Exhales) I’m sorry, I’m starting to get off topic. What I really wanted to say is that even though growing up today may be more difficult, society’s expectations are still the same. Take a girl my age for instance. I’m may look like an average girl; going to college and trying to find myself in this world while dating a great guy and wondering where it may go. (Starts to get excited and voice begins to raise) But do you know what society sees me as? Just another chick who will grow up a little, get married shortly after and pump out baby after baby for my loving husband who will gradually grow further and further away form the guy I once fell in love with. That’s what happens to the best of us, isn’t it? We think we know what we want in life, then we fall in love and BOOM, you either end up broken hearted or pregnant, working a part-time job at Kmart, or Kroger, or some other minimun wage earning job where you are over-worked and under-paid. (Takes a deep breath and regains composure) Again, sorry. I tend to get a little excited when it comes to this topic. Let me just state that I will not be one of those girls. Babies? I hate babies! They just eat and cry and sleep. Then eventually they grow up only to hate you, their mother, for never letting them wear makeup as a child or letting them take karate lessons or something stupid like that. What do you get when you have kids? Headaches, that’s what! And let me tell you, I already get plenty of them.
(Stops to notice a couple walking hand-in-hand on the street next to her)
And marraige? Yeah, I guess it would be nice. I mean, it might get a little quiet and lonely if it is just me and the cats. But what happens when your partner, who you promised to love in sickness and in health, wants nothing more than to be a daddy? Then it is either break down and kill your own future for the sake of your husband, or crush all of his hopes. Either way, it is a lose-lose situation, isn’t it? Unfortunatly, it appears that marraige may not be for me either. Do you know what kind of burden it is carrying this knowledge around with me? I feel like my furture is just one dark tunnle that I am forced to crawl down for the rest of my life. Am I doomed to live alone forever? Where is my happy ending? Sadly, it looks like that ending is in a single-bedroom house, filled with hungry cats and empty dreams.
A Monologue By
Kelly Beaubien
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One girl, Hanna, stands in the middle of the stage, set up as a busy city street, with the spotlight shining on her. People are bustling all around her but no one is paying attention to her.
HANNA: This world, I so greatly dislike this world. No matter what anyone says, it is so much harder growing up in this time period than it was 50 years ago. Yeah, so they had a war back then where brothers were fighting against eachother and everyone was the enemy. But what about now? What about Irag? What about all the fresh-out-of-high-school kids going over there and fighting for something they might not even believe in? (Exhales) I’m sorry, I’m starting to get off topic. What I really wanted to say is that even though growing up today may be more difficult, society’s expectations are still the same. Take a girl my age for instance. I’m may look like an average girl; going to college and trying to find myself in this world while dating a great guy and wondering where it may go. (Starts to get excited and voice begins to raise) But do you know what society sees me as? Just another chick who will grow up a little, get married shortly after and pump out baby after baby for my loving husband who will gradually grow further and further away form the guy I once fell in love with. That’s what happens to the best of us, isn’t it? We think we know what we want in life, then we fall in love and BOOM, you either end up broken hearted or pregnant, working a part-time job at Kmart, or Kroger, or some other minimun wage earning job where you are over-worked and under-paid. (Takes a deep breath and regains composure) Again, sorry. I tend to get a little excited when it comes to this topic. Let me just state that I will not be one of those girls. Babies? I hate babies! They just eat and cry and sleep. Then eventually they grow up only to hate you, their mother, for never letting them wear makeup as a child or letting them take karate lessons or something stupid like that. What do you get when you have kids? Headaches, that’s what! And let me tell you, I already get plenty of them.
(Stops to notice a couple walking hand-in-hand on the street next to her)
And marraige? Yeah, I guess it would be nice. I mean, it might get a little quiet and lonely if it is just me and the cats. But what happens when your partner, who you promised to love in sickness and in health, wants nothing more than to be a daddy? Then it is either break down and kill your own future for the sake of your husband, or crush all of his hopes. Either way, it is a lose-lose situation, isn’t it? Unfortunatly, it appears that marraige may not be for me either. Do you know what kind of burden it is carrying this knowledge around with me? I feel like my furture is just one dark tunnle that I am forced to crawl down for the rest of my life. Am I doomed to live alone forever? Where is my happy ending? Sadly, it looks like that ending is in a single-bedroom house, filled with hungry cats and empty dreams.