Sketch & Sketch: Time is Mon(k)ey

May 2026
Theatrical absurd humor type sketch • Improvised stand-up monologue • LqUX Design Thinking
Genre: Stand-Up Comedy & Philosophical (con)seriousness humanistic sketch, slightly running out of time, yet creative and humorous

While the audience is waiting for the artist to enter and start the sketch, background music plays: Love won't wait by Madonna

The actor / artist enters the stage and starts a monologue, bumbling a bit, in the style of Woody Allen's airs, while looking at its watch: Indeed... love won't wait forever and a day, 'cause it exists to be lived 'forever and a day' (as another song says), so it can't wait to...
What time is it?... Ah... I have another stupid idea for a sketch... :)

It is a stupid idea I guess... why should it be a non-stupid idea, since, according to the majority of my contemporary fellows' opinions, I am: an error of the universe that shouldn't exist, so better without me, stupid, useless, lgbtqia2s>, confusingly too creative, who 'does not fit', not worthy, so on, so on...
But guessing is often wrong, they say.

Kind reminder: I do agree with the fact that I am not as intelligent as those fellows are. I totally agree. Forever and ever I do agree with this. :) What's theirs, is theirs, as says the expression. I am not even smart. I told you already: I am m&m's & dark factor 1.66 and LGBTQIA2S. It is not a "big deal".

Knowing very well the people dark factor > 2, I know you might suffer from mistrust. I really see and understand you; even why. I know... it 'sounds' very pretentious what I am saying... you heard it so many times in your life and it was so not true... :( But there is a huge difference when you meet a low dark factor. Read about, and you'll get the 'why I can afford' to say it.

L'air de rien, I am one of those mandatory human beings to the human species ultimately very literraly*, ! literary (here, ! is for 'not'), continuation of existence :) An overthinker too.

* - read some Daniel Goleman's work on emotional intelligence and what is the dark factor, on darkfactor.org

How's that? Well... I am not a 'guru', I do not do politics, I do not do any proselytism, I am not 'dr. Knows everything', I don't want to 'rule the world', but I can tell you this: a dark factor being is very close to the center of life 'web' and has a VLFoVP (Very Large Field of View and Perception). Its family is really, sincerely VLUF (Very Large Universal Family).

When you are next to me or another low dark factor human being, you'll say at some point: 'you were right, you are right'. I will answer, as I usually do: a real kind and emotional smile, a look, a silence, or with a song, a joke, a "stupid" 'n'importe quoi' (not to embarrass both of us and others), I might say: I know... Now you know it too. Let's listen and dance on that song with the lyrics 'I "hate" to tell you : did I tell you so?', dance and see how good it feels to do it. Same words, same song, but a VDOO (Very Different Outcome and Optics), without being some kind of weird destructive black magic', but that 'black magic called 'real' love', healed happiness and normality (real ones, not the 'f[.]ked up' lives ones, some songs are testifying about). There is a song too with this title.

So, I know it is "pretty" possible not to believe what I am saying.
It is normal at that level of being. Abnormal literally, you feel its discomfort, but you got used to it and as Gabor Maté and other healed specialists in their domain, it has become 'your normality', you got to almost 'believe' it is the normality. But it is not, and you know it deep within yourself.
So, I propose:
Let's do this: read about dark factor (darkfactor.org) and the meaning, importance in the context of life itself and existence of a species and its society. You'll find out who and why is mandatory to exist and to live really happy, and who is your 'real friend', warranting to all that 'web' the continuation of existence ultimately, and equally important, living really good LqUX. 'cause life is not just to pass some time 'doesn't matter how', and at some point to die and that was it.
You'll discover also, that the low dark factor people are the ones who can confirm to you (as a living being) what a healed specialist like Gabor Mate, for example, says to you: yes, you really can evolve to a lower dark factor. And you are supposed to do it in fact. It will allow to you and to others too to really 'live your beautiful dreams, and not your beautiful dreams that turned into nightmare dreams, lived in everyday life. Are still dreams, but, let's be reasonable and normal: do you like it? really? do you remember yourself before the bad LqUX 'metamorphose'? I know you still do, you still feel them somewhere within you. So, remember and re-member :)

Flying thoughts original artwork by O2ô8n

Flying thoughts
Fly close to me
Largo movement
Yellow sound
In light green waves
Near beat of heart
Growing in
Thoughts touch
Harmonies close
Only hues whispered
Universes colours
Go see return notes
Hugs round and around
Times of times around
Stars around with

2u

'Flying thoughts', 2026, by O2ô8n
Original handmade painted drawing and poem

Me, being 1.66 dark factor level, INFJ-A personality type, highly sensitive, lesbian, chromesthet, I am slightly different than some people.

Different, but not indifferent.
And not 'out of tune' at all with normality, love, universal rights and real priorities, cohesion, comfort, happiness, trust, sincerity, kindness, authentic LqUX.
It is like I play with(in) an orchestra of arrhythmic and musically impaired people, that are > 90% out of tune, time included. Sadly...some of them are musicians...

For example: I cannot be jealous (I do feel very rarely, sometimes, a kind of something like it, but it is passing instantly). I am not envious, hater, violent, suicidal, doing crimes. I am for making love and peace, feel love, let's dance, harmony and unity of diversity lived as it is meant to be, not as it is again, lately.

I cannot be what Universal Source is not, but I can protect it in the right mode.

I cannot desire and ask for what is not mine universally granted and I am entitled to, entitled for. It might occur if too tired by the dark factor >2 people, to 'renounce', but it is not in fact: I 'give up'. I really am not ambitious, I am not in a destructive mindset of 'fight and/or competition'. I become, I evolve, I do what I can for what I feel and I know that brings real happiness and normality not only to me, but to others too. When "I give up", it is only a consequence of the 'web's people destructive behaviour'. I can "fake" a bit I do not: wish, longing for, desire, dream of, want, like, know, but it is only for some reasons that surpass most people's comprehension. Those with dark factor under 2 can understand what I mean.
Some dark factor > 2 will consider: ah... she's just a dreamer, pretty old (almost 52), not a 'fighter', not aggressive, a low dark factor, so, an easy 'target', an opportunity to 'grab easy fruits'. But...

Here's the "catch"
Me*, I might be a very easy target, but when it comes to real reality and its priorities, it is like a riddle of a creative queer geek designer somehow:

if don't miss (sense: fail) to miss (sense: fail) me,
& if you don't miss (sense: longing for) not to miss (sense: fail) me,
& if you don't miss (sense: longing for) me;

for each it turns to be a very difficult 'target' one has ever had as 'task' for their own genuine, real, long term happiness. ;)

* - where 'Me' is: you, me, us, one's self

You can understand better the meaning of 'running out of time' and 'slightly out of tune' in this context.
In my opinion, they are related; when they are together and not evolving, in unSTAY, it can be a real mess.


I cannot be arrogant either. But I can say things with eloquence, which many people confused / confuse with arrogance, cynical, lack of empathy.
Allow me to tell you: a being dark factor under 2, is not arrogant, cynical, lacking of empathy.
Allow me also, to tell you this: The real arrogance and all its aspects, is not to evolve, is to refuse to be what and how we, human beings too, are, to destroy diversity, its right, freedom, happiness, lives. This is the real arrogance, not only toward one's species, but against all and above all, against the Universal Source, its diversity, creativity, its generosity, kindness, its nature and meaning of life, love, existence. This arrogance 'va de pair' ('hand in hand') with destruction of ecosystems, of diversity, of entire worlds (literally and metaphorically), cultures, beauty and future.

But let's not be too serious, no? I love the calembours, word playing. They allow to say many things.
So, let's have a Monday joke, in a math opportunity style (they say: (math or not) problems do not exist, are not 'problems', are opportunities).

My bank account is pretty empty of money.. My pockets too..
Money as goods, things, etc are not aspects to take into account, in this Monday joke math opportunity case. :)))

B(u)y the way ;) I do prefer and I consider, without doubt, discussion and compromise, that is better, to have money in my bank account(s). No 'cash' anymore. Transparency, sincerity, openness defaults of a dark factor 1.66
Something we might agree on: no cash anymore. For better LqUX and better social cohesion, simplicity, comfort and all that really good things, harmonised with LqUX.

Speaking about money, it is something I also know better than any of you, for me: what, how, when, where, who, why, etc.

Now... What's the situation of the amounts in your bank accounts?

Here we go with the math/non math/unmath Monday mon(k)ey "thing":

  • Knowing that: Time itself does not exist;
  • Knowing that: Scientists still don't know what time is;
  • Knowing the expression: 'Time is money';

Wonder / opportunity: How to have money in a bank account?



Result of the wonder math/non math/unmath opportunity: simple, elegant, full of common sense and logic:

It is neither a problem, nor an opportunity. I am simply in 'accord' with the nature of the universes. This world is part of the universes. Life too. No? Heart too? Brain too? Wishes? Needs? Desires? Rights? Dreams? Nature? Happiness?

How about you?
Is there any money in your bank accounts, in your pockets?

If yes... Oops.. Apollon... Houston... We can say: you have an opportunity*.

* B(u)y the way again: there is a space engine, named Opportunity, made by a VLT of human beings (disambiguation: a Very Large Team, not the VLT, the Very Large Telescope) that cocreated with the Universes. Or the vice versa: the Universes cocreated with them that engine. It 'spent' billions of years prior to the existence of that VLT. Which one is the real truth? Which one is the real deal? I don't know why, but my "stupid" dark factor 1.66 intuition whispers to my ears: the second one. What do you feel, think, consider? Are you still wondering which one? :)

So, it is an engine 'Made in an unnamed (yet) Universe'. 'cause the VLT does not know yet the name of the Universe they live in, nor the names of the other universes.

If you ever land on and visit the planet where the VLT is (was) living while crafting the space engine Opportunity, you'll understand almost instantly what I am talking about. The good news is that each human being has a common human being acquaintance with every 5 of the other human beings (I am saying something else than the 5% related to dark factor). We are a big family. > 8 billion and other billions of billions of other beings. Last, but not least / list / liszt, there are also uncountable particles smaller than the smallest up to date named.

It made me ask myself: why people don't smile at each other? I think it's 'cause they do not know which of the people met while walking in the street are from those every 5, is the reason why they do not smile at each other.. ;) And usually, they do not smile at the planet, to other being, nor the universes. They do not cry either to them.
Anyway... I am Greek too, so I will not lose myself and this opportunity's gold line clew of Ariadne.

I know you heard about Opportunity space engine.

It cost a lot of money and 'key(s)', so they say :) A hefty price tag, that is... And it took them a heck of a time to build it, so they say :)

So...
how to say it to you...

Time is money

I know a person who told me something that a very kind and caring friend said (I met that friend me too, once or twice): I cannot build my happiness on others suffering and unhappiness, taking advantage of them as opportunities to be exploited.

I wonder these days, why I don't succeed to live my happiness, normality, my wishes, my dreams, my knowledge, my aptitudes and gifts from those 13.8 billion of years, my experience, my creativity, my rights, my nature, my comfortable and normal, natural mode of being. I am one of the least destructive people from the human beings / species / race.

Singularities, original artwork by O2ô8n

Sometimes, I feel to say to people: 'Are you in a race? where are you running? from what? to what?' And I feel to say a few words from a beautiful song of a gen Z very gifted artist and human being: 'slow down...' Are you aware? Do you know?... 'we' really are running Out of time.. that time that scientists still don't know what it is, but they know it does not exist as it. That very same time that scientists or not, we feel it often, as running. That very same time that is relative (Albert Einstein and Lewis Carroll wrote about), that very same time that is beating the pulse(s) of uncountable particles vibrating to live and feel the authentically good LqUX.

There are 2 more aspects, relevant to this Mon(k)ey Monday sketch, I feel. It's kind of funny thing how:
1. This planet's star, the Sun has life to offer for another ~ 5 billion years;
2. The most intelligent species on this planet is shortening drastically those 5 billion years available, by destroying diversity, refusing to evolve to low dark factor, and to love this unique, beautiful, a singularity, as one might said or say, 'a world full of worlds': it is a so simple and beautiful example of many worlds (under, on, above the surface of the planet) into 1 interconnected with all universe.

It is just a tiny Mon(k)ey Monday math/non math/unmath kind reminder, like a note in a sketch&sketch travelling book of a human being dark factor 1.66, to remember and re-member to the 'web' that 'One big universal family we are' (Yoda's style).

The artist leaves the scene singing from Louis Armstrong's song:
We have all the time in the world

May, 2026
Original text by Oana M Karagiannopoulou, O2ô8n.


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I like to look at the starry sky, leaving the soul and thoughts free through the universe.
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