A Letter From Your Monkey Mind

It feels nice to derail your life

Hello, it’s me.

The little monkey that shows up in your head whenever you want to do something productive. The little monkey who always wants to push things into the future because there is always something more interesting to do right now. The little monkey who lives off of dopamine hits and instant gratification.

See, the difference between you and me is that at least I am honest with myself. I don’t pretend that I want to work hard and long on some complex problems. I don’t pretend that I enjoy the creative process and discovering new ideas. I don’t pretend that I like to sit down on a Sunday afternoon and devour an obscure 18th-century-book on the temporal and philosophical aspects of time. I don’t pretend that I looooove waking up at 5 am every morning to work out.

Nope, that’s just not me. And I don’t pretend any of this.

I am very proud of my out-of-pocket behavior.

I truly enjoy eating ice cream at midnight on a Tuesday night. I truly enjoy waking up late on a Saturday afternoon after a late night out on Friday. I truly enjoy pushing so-called “important” tasks to the future because why do today what you can do tomorrow? I truly enjoy scrolling through Twitter and hearing all these wonderful online strangers scream at me. I live for the ratio moments and being able to witness the beginning of a new outrage. That’s why I truly loooove.

You and I are different because you want to act all serious. You want to do all these hard things. But, hey, I don’t complain. You do you. But just know that there is a reason why I often end up on the winning side of the argument. That is because deep down everything I do is what you secretly wish to do.

I mean, there is no way in hell that you enjoyed running 6 miles the other day while it was raining. This was one of the few times you won the battle but there is no way in hell you had a kick out of that.

What you truly want is to sit in front of Netflix to watch the latest Korean show and eat some chicken nuggets from McDonald's. And the irony is that you know it.

That brings me to why I wrote you this letter. I want to reach an agreement with you…

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