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so...
obviously I voted today. I felt different than I usually do, and it wasnt until I read my friend![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
baerana's post on the same subject that i was really able to figure out how i was feeling.
I have felt good voting before, like in 04' when i truly believed that we would be seeing the end of the Bush nightmare. This time i not only felt good, i felt proud, and significant. I was acutely aware of how this was a monumental election, quite possibly one of the more historical domestic events to happen in my life. for once i dont feel like i was voting for the lesser of two evils, voting for the candidate that is still an asshole, and is just less of an asshole in areas that effect me directly than the other guy. For once i was voting for someone that i truly believe in, someone that i support and would LOVE to see as the president.
Thinking about this did bring up another, more personal thought process.
I tend to range between cynic and idealist in my opinions, but my default setting is generally idealist. I choose to believe that the universe is a balance of positive and negative, and your own experience of it is dictated by the things you choose to focus on. I CHOOSE (and am very concious that i do so) to focus on the positive or at the very least to hope that things can improve.
I wonder why so many people feel a need to challenge my decision to have hope. Is it because misery loves company? I encounter, on a regular basis, people that go out of their way to attempt to disabuse me of my idealism, and act as though they are doing me a favor by doing so. as if they are "saving me from myself" (red flag!!!!) by revealing how silly it is to care or to hope.
A note to those who feel a driving need to do these things
1st: if you(editorial "you") think you need to "save me from myself" then i only really need to be saved from you
2nd: who exactly does it hurt for me to have hope? if it hurts you, then that is your problem and not mine. if you think that you need to "tell me what its really like" dont bother.
3rd: Dont assume that because i am hopeful, that i am uneducated, or unaware. I AM aware, and i have made the choice to think this way. you only bitch about my "rose-colored glasses" because you are not happy with your storm-cloud colored ones.
Just remember:
"'cause I'm not going to pretend
that I don't pick my nose
that's just the way it is, my friends
that's just the way it goes
this is who I am
what I do
and what I say
if you like it, let it be
if you don't, please do the same"
obviously I voted today. I felt different than I usually do, and it wasnt until I read my friend
baerana's post on the same subject that i was really able to figure out how i was feeling. I have felt good voting before, like in 04' when i truly believed that we would be seeing the end of the Bush nightmare. This time i not only felt good, i felt proud, and significant. I was acutely aware of how this was a monumental election, quite possibly one of the more historical domestic events to happen in my life. for once i dont feel like i was voting for the lesser of two evils, voting for the candidate that is still an asshole, and is just less of an asshole in areas that effect me directly than the other guy. For once i was voting for someone that i truly believe in, someone that i support and would LOVE to see as the president.
Thinking about this did bring up another, more personal thought process.
I tend to range between cynic and idealist in my opinions, but my default setting is generally idealist. I choose to believe that the universe is a balance of positive and negative, and your own experience of it is dictated by the things you choose to focus on. I CHOOSE (and am very concious that i do so) to focus on the positive or at the very least to hope that things can improve.
I wonder why so many people feel a need to challenge my decision to have hope. Is it because misery loves company? I encounter, on a regular basis, people that go out of their way to attempt to disabuse me of my idealism, and act as though they are doing me a favor by doing so. as if they are "saving me from myself" (red flag!!!!) by revealing how silly it is to care or to hope.
A note to those who feel a driving need to do these things
1st: if you(editorial "you") think you need to "save me from myself" then i only really need to be saved from you
2nd: who exactly does it hurt for me to have hope? if it hurts you, then that is your problem and not mine. if you think that you need to "tell me what its really like" dont bother.
3rd: Dont assume that because i am hopeful, that i am uneducated, or unaware. I AM aware, and i have made the choice to think this way. you only bitch about my "rose-colored glasses" because you are not happy with your storm-cloud colored ones.
Just remember:
"'cause I'm not going to pretend
that I don't pick my nose
that's just the way it is, my friends
that's just the way it goes
this is who I am
what I do
and what I say
if you like it, let it be
if you don't, please do the same"
