The green monkey used to live in the most beautiful forest you can imagine. There were all kind of flowers, flowers you have never seen before and you’ll never see again. Because the only place they were growing was the green monkeys beautiful forest.
The green monkey used to play with his friends, the birds.
Playing hide and seek or catch me if you can… And some times made a joke out of giving the parrots funny noises to imitate.
But one day some scary noises started to come up, it seamed as they are omni present, anywhere and everywhere. A big MONSTER that’s eating the forest!
It didn’t take long and all the trees where gone. No more beautiful flowers, all burned and stamped to the ground. The monkeys friends got killed or flew away just very few stayed.
But hide and seek is no fun anymore all the trees are gone… and catch me if you can doesn’t work no more, the monkey can’t fly and get up to his friends.
A hard life. Just trying to survive, trying to find food.
The monkey got deeply depressed.
He’s life in paradise came straight down to zero.
The green monkey is useless for this world!
There is no meaning in his life!
Why did the MONSTER do that? Why did it take everything the monkey loved so much?
Why does the MONSTER hate him so badly?
What did the monkey do, that he deserved such a punishment?
The green monkey got lost in his depression and hate began to rise! He’s gain for rage began to overtake him… the kindness of the green monkey seamed to be gone+ All he wanted was rage! Rage for the beautiful flowers that no one will ever see again, rage for his friends, who got killed or had to fly away, rage for himself because the MONSTER destroyed just everything he loved so much.
So he promised he will KILL the MONSTER, on any cost!
He started to observe the MONSTER, tried to understand how it works! You need to know your enemy better then your friends, to fight him.
As he was observing and studying the Monster he soon started to realize this MONSTER wasn’t what it seamed to be+ It was more then just a MONSTER it was an ARMY and army of human beeings with chainsaws!
But those people were no soldiers, they were poor people. Poor people that had to kill their environment to survive.
The green monkey couldn’t really do them any harm. There was still a warm side in his heart, it wasn’t totally frozen to stone yet. He couldn’t become a MONSTER he hated so much.
But he didn’t get any rest either!
He needed to know were the wood is going to!
So he prepared him self for his big trip to the civilization, the big City, as the people from the little village called it.
He just needed to know!
THE CITY! The green monkey found himself in a big Jungle, a big gray Jungle!
A Jungle without flowers and just very few birds.
That couldn’t be!
This is what they changing his forest into?
They trading his beautiful home into a big gray stone Jungle? Where people are walking around their mouth upside down?
This depressed the little green monkey so much.
He’s so little, to little to do anything against this big gray Jungle MACHINE.
A MACHINE that turns everything and everyone into a half dead zombie, totally unhappy.
He knew he can’t change anything, but deeply inside he knew something must be done. But he’s so little. To small to change things.
The green monkey went down to the riverside. Water had always been a surreal source of power for him.
When he’s sitting next to the water, watching the shimmer of the sun in it. That would help for sure.
But he couldn’t concentrate, some humans were doing strange noises! (they are everywhere you can’t get a rest in this gray jungle)
But what’s that? Those humans are happy! They seam to be happy in this big gray jungle? Just by playing around with their little wooden boards with 4 wheels? (wood that didn’t come from his forest?)
The green monkey was curious, he needed to know. And as soon as he came closer one of the humans was like. “Yoh dude wonna give it a shot?” and peaked the little green monkey a skateboard.
The green monkey got hooked, he couldn’t stop no more!
He was riding like a mad man, developing super quick, crashing trying again, doing it allover again, bigger, faster!
He skated out all his frustration.
He skated until he couldn’t no more. He was tired and every single part of his body was hurting! He could feel it and he was filled with joy! Joy like back in the days when he was playing hide and seek or catch me if you can with his friends, the birds!
He felt like a little kid, but more alive then ever before.
This was what he wanted to do from now on!
It’s fulfilling him and he loves it!
The pain he felt was trivial then he knew he found something great. Something to express himself, something to live for!
The green monkey loved his new live, he felt for real! He found a family, a family that holds to him, sharing skateboarding with ‘em felt good!
It was not about destroying and doing your thing on any cost, whether you hurt others or whatever. It’s about sharing your time with dudes thinking the same way, surfing the same wave!
It’s physical, it’s activity, a way to express your feelings, to share yourself! It’s ART!
An own kind of ART.
It’s something about it, getting into a focus like you would be meditating, just about living the moment, taking the chance!
But the monkey had to learn that nothing is perfect, there is always a flip side of the coin! And soon he had to realize that people don’t like his new life style. He got busted by the police several time and while he found a nice spot to skate people come over and even thrown stuff at him, told him to FUCK OFF! or they gonna call the police. While the police usually took away his skate and everything, he preferred to fuck off..
He found himself standing in the gray Jungle again. Unhappy people all over stressed up, no time for a rest, no time for love. The “upside down mothed” zombies were filled up with the bad energy that comes from this big gray stone jungle.
So the green monkey decided! He decided to bring them back the flowers! Colors for the Zombies! He won’t be able to change them but if a single zombie starts to smile once, or even to think then it was worth all the effort.
Yes the green monkey will speak and the green monkey will bring them flowers! Flowers from his jungle so the gray jungle gets some color!
And maybe! Maybe he will be able to put a smile on someone’s FACE!
