The Monster

So there is a monster that lives inside of me. She comes out with no warning. I’ll just be sitting, minding my own business, usually reading, and the monster awakens. She makes me feel really lethargic and cranky. She tells me that the only way she’ll leave is if I eat something sugary…or eat at all for that matter. So I’ll slog into the kitchen for a quick sweet snack…but my little monster friend is a liar. She is not so easily subdued. I’ll then try to quiet her by getting on the computer and looking at pictures of friends and family and sending emails. Yet, she still persists in making me feel yucky.

The truth is, there’s only one way to defeat this monster…it’s the one thing the monster tells me I don’t want to do – Exercise. The monster tells me not to run or swim outside... “Just sit inside in the dark with me,” she sneers. “You’re too tired to go running. It takes so much effort to get ready to go and too much time that you don’t have. You should be studying instead.” But the monster doesn’t really let me study, either. She makes me bored and grumpy that I should have to study. She just doesn’t want to me to get rid of her.

So I reluctantly slink off the couch and slip on my old, trusty sneakers. I grab my ipod and together we jump onto the treadmill and run and run and run and run…until the monster slowly slithers back into her dark hole...