Day 193

'Can't get the monkey off your back', Pen on Paper

Another day, another draw, another idea for a t-shirt design and another idiom as the inspiration. This time that age old expression to have a 'monkey on ones back', which refers to having a serious problem, habit or worry that you just can't seem to get rid of no matter how hard you try. You see some problems and habits are just too hard to kick as the severity how deeply we are affected means that it lingers in the mind long after a solution has been found, this could be because the probability of a relapse into a similar situation is too great for us to ignore. A further issue is just how easily we are affected by even the subtlest of things so an insignificant choice, a minor transgression, the most fleeting of observations and comments can plague our minds for an age as well. These seemingly innocent subtleties tend to grab a hold of us tightly and whisper in an unassuming yet relentless manor that pupates and slowly feeds of us until it grows to a point where it is unavoidable. It becomes an infestation of woe that swells and overwhelms us with a weight comparable to that of the density of a dying Sun. We perpetuate our problems, allow too easily for things to affect us and being creatures of habit and ritual we fall back into the same old behaviours that led us to repeat the whole thing again and again. In short sometimes just no matter how much you kick and scream that chimpy, little monkey bastard is going nowhere, with his opposable thumbed grip of death.