Monster Attack!

I want to talk a little bit about something that affects all of us: bad days. Now, I'm not talking about those days when you have three finals and a thirty page paper due. I'm not talking about the days you go to work having stayed up all night taking care of a sick kid. Don't get me wrong, those are terrible days. But I am talking about the sneaky bad days. The days that start out normal and then pull you into a hell of anxiety and paranoia because you don't know what is going on. Those are the days I'm talking about.

I call these Monster Days because they are like a sneaky monster. You don't see them coming until you are caught and can't escape. At first you might think it is an innocent little fluffy monster. No big deal. You want to pet it. But then it latches on with teeth and claws, and you can't escape it!

Monster Days start out normal. Better than normal even. You wake up and you think "This isn't so bad. I don't mind getting out of my warm, comfortable bed." This is your first clue that a monster day is in the works, stalking you. Getting out of bed is rarely pleasant, even when you get to sleep in. And if you are waking up at 5:30 and thinking it's not so bad, then you definitely need to watch your back because the monster day is coming!

No one knows what turns an ordinary day into a Monster Day. It is a mysterious and unholy process that only the devil himself is privy to. One minute everything is going along just fine. The next, you find yourself in a vortex of absolute chaos that is pulling you down into madness.

The truly terrifying thing about Monster Days is that there is nothing that specifically goes wrong. It's not like you get a flat tire or wake up late or burn the house down. Suddenly something in the atmosphere just shifts and you find yourself in the middle of a swirling vortex of panic and doom. There's really no other way to describe it.

The only escape is to make it to your bed, curl up under the covers, and try not to shake. Go to sleep and start over. After all, everyone knows that if you have all of your limbs on the bed and tucked beneath the blankets, no monster can get you.