The Full Moon Made Me Do It
I was at a cocktail party and met a psychiatric nurse who revealed something which I had long suspected...the full moon can turn you into a monster. During a full moon the moon is on the exact opposite side of the earth as the sun. The gravitational pull (as she explained) in these diametrically opposing directions causes the fluid surrounding our brains to swell with the pressure, pressing down on sensitive parts of the brain. It made so much sense. The other day, my friend at work said that she had been very close to making a phone call to her long-estranged lover and that she had only just been able to restrain herself from picking up the phone. She couldn't understand what would compel her to do something so crazy but I knew - it had been a brilliant, shining full moon that nightl. Its a pity I didn't have as much self-control. A rage-filled text message made its way to my text and the next day I was filled with so much horror at what I had done that I deleted his phone number completely and contemplated leaving the country. For a while I agonised over my state of mental health until I realised I could blame it on the invisible sway that a giant hulk of rock has over my emotional well-being.
The scientists claim that there is no correlation between loony behaviour and lunar phases but then scientists seem to have never been able to agree on anything really so I like to make up my own mind. I am betting that the full moon's effect is only apparent when people are already in a sensitive state so sure, it might not effect you every month but when you have had a rough couple of weeks leading up to it then those neurons might just snap, crackle and pop under the pressure. Perhaps the full moon is God's way of bringing our suppressed emotions to the surface for us to spew out like a nasty furball. It might be ugly and emberrassing but afterwards, you kind of feel glad that its gone.
The scientists claim that there is no correlation between loony behaviour and lunar phases but then scientists seem to have never been able to agree on anything really so I like to make up my own mind. I am betting that the full moon's effect is only apparent when people are already in a sensitive state so sure, it might not effect you every month but when you have had a rough couple of weeks leading up to it then those neurons might just snap, crackle and pop under the pressure. Perhaps the full moon is God's way of bringing our suppressed emotions to the surface for us to spew out like a nasty furball. It might be ugly and emberrassing but afterwards, you kind of feel glad that its gone.
