Are Flying Monkeys Really That Simple?

Are Flying Monkeys Really That Simple?

Are flying monkeys really that simple? Do they not see all that the narcissist does?

I refuse to believe flying monkeys can be so naïve that they don’t see what a narcissist does. In fact, flying monkeys often join in on a narcissist’s abuses against others.

So, yes, I am going to say they are aware, and they aren’t really that simple either.

Flying Monkey Business

Although I considered myself to be friends with narcissists, I was never meant to be a flying monkey to them. I am far too stubborn and free-thinking for the flying monkey position. I rebel against others who attempt to control me in terms of my thoughts, behaviors, and freedom of speech. I believe I was created to be free to do and think as I please. Therefore, I choose to be free to do and think as I please whenever I feel like it.

I do have the firm belief that parents should train their children in the way they should go so that they may live long, healthy, and prosperous lives. Yet, I do not believe this training should involve abusive control. The abusive control that I was reared under by my parents is the reason why I believe there was so much friction between my parents and me when I was a child.

I did what I was supposed to do, but I stubbornly stood my ground when it came to what I believed my rights to be in terms of having free thought and expression. However, my parents successfully stifled those expressions anyway, even though I was a bull who’d butt against their heads until I was too tired to care about resisting any longer. I had to survive my narcissistic environment. I chose to survive.

I simply couldn’t go along to get along, and this has been my stance much of my life. I see right as right and wrong as wrong. I also don’t like drama, but I will still confront an obstacle or person head-on when needed, despite my dislike of confrontation. Confrontation doesn’t make for a good flying monkey at all. Flying monkeys are usually not voices of reason in conflict unless they are assisting a narcissist for an agenda. Otherwise, flying monkeys are extremely territorial of narcissists and will defend them even when they are wrong.

Frankly, I tend to call a spade a spade even if it makes me fearful to do so, and narcissists aren’t about being called out for any reason. They are about saving themselves, and they are about flying monkeys saving them too. I’ve always thought that I was helping a narcissist by being truthful to them, but in actuality, this is not what they ever wanted from me at all.

Narcissists preferred that I would just simply keep quiet and let them do their thing, but this is not me. Their lives aren’t my business, but when their lives were connected to mine in anyway and what they wanted to do was going to affect me, I’d speak out. In the long run, I know from experiences that lies eventually catch up with the one who participates in them, but narcissists don’t care about this.

I know that most flying monkeys have to know this fact, but they still persist in blindness and deception to keep things covered for a narcissist (and inadvertently, themselves too). It baffles me that they can’t see how little a narcissist cares about their efforts (or them) in the long run. Although narcissists’ seek flying monkeys’ undivided attention and devoted loyalties, they give nothing in return to flying monkeys but heartache.

All the while, flying monkeys will protest that “this is just how a narcissist is”. Thereby, they give narcissists excuses for behaving badly. They don’t make them accountable. Instead, they will choose the road of least resistance while bitterly wishing they’d speak out against narcissists for their negative behaviors against them. It’s a never-ending cycle of abuse.

I don’t believe flying monkeys are simple, but they will behave that way to keep a narcissist satisfied and calm. Often, flying monkeys have their own agendas against a target too, and they will gladly let someone else take the lead in bullying a target while they remain in the background happy to assist. They aren’t simple, but they do “simple” things I think are worth questioning.