"True Friend" Monologue

Ah yo shut up,(pause) Ownen no just shut up. I really had it with you. I’m really about to sock you keep on trying me, you got no clue what you saying (pause) “I’m retarded”. You really think I'm going to let it slide through? No, (pause) I’m speaking here stop trying to change the topic .

Why do you think it’s Okay to call someone slow? Huh? (pause) I mean you're the one that does whatever that girl Sandy tells you to do, (pause) okay, but the point is  if she told you to jump off a cliff you would do it you son of bit*ch.

 You said things in the past that I let go, once you embarrassed me in front of my whole class, saying I didn’t have deodorant on, instead of looking out for me you didn’t. Do you understand what that means? (pause) of course you wouldn’t. You always invite Max and Jacob to your parties and you guys backbite me, don’t act like I don’t know, would you like to eat my flesh, or even better would you enjoy stabbing me while I’m not facing you. What you got to say about that?  You know what F**k our friendship, f**k everything. I need to hang around better people, people that will take me for who I am and not who they want me to be. Owen you  would be the type of friend  that would only applaud me for doing dumb stuff, so you can mock me, (pause)you’re one of those people that takes pride in watching others fail, in watching me fail calling me a “retarded”.

(To the Audience)

Poor Owen, if only he could understand what a retard in my definition means , it’s someone who is behind on  everything, someone who doesn’t deserve spot anywhere in our society, and all that I could tell you is,  that’s not me, and that will never be me, I earned my spot in society, and I know for a given fact that I’m important, I make a difference. You don’t understand at what extent I want to just snatch all that arrogance away from him, and see the Owen I’ve known since we were in kindergarten. It’s as if as soon as a teenager has a taste a little bit of goodness in high school, they seem to  forget about everything that was once  important to them, (pause) all of it, and become a so called “savage” to grab people's attention. Owen walks into every situation blind as if his soul couldn’t just leave his body at any instant. My dear friend I’m here I was always here, through your problem, through your times of joy and happiness, through your struggle I feared this a day would come where our friendship will break. It’s like you're a tree loses it's leaves a friend loses it's friends, it seems that we’ve arrived the finish line, the end of our journey. Bye my friend or as the french would say ”Au Revoir mon cher amie”.

I would love to just embarrass him in front of the whole world, but who would I be? I would love to make him feel my pain, but I won’t, I would love to fight him nock all his teeth out, but I won’t. All that I know is that I must be the bigger person today, tomorrow, everyday. (laughter…..) Today I choose to forgive him, to forgive not only because I’m the bigger person, but because it’s only fair that I let him see the regretful mistakes he carries within himself, so he see the path to fixing himself, and he will follow it, and with that he will finally find peace within himself