A brief word…
We are officially ten-ish days past the American 2024 presidential election and all I can say to that is thank fuck. I don’t know about you my dearest but I am so dang tired of being smacked in the face by everyone’s unsolicited political opinions and advice it has been unceasing. I honestly couldn’t even collect my thoughts these past few weeks to write personally because my internal world felt ruptured by this tirade of the all-or-nothing, end-of-the-world, ideologists on both sides of the political aisle. Surely, surely we can exist, think, reflect, make a choice, and engage with politics and not conform to this insane game being played out? I don’t yet know how and I have mostly tried to remove myself in the aftermath.
I know, I know we are supposed to be informed citizens of the world. I understand it’s a privilege to choose ignorance and to move on and I am aware that great injustice and harm is occuring on a daily basis in this world. However, we were not simply put here on this earth for battle and we cannot exist in perpetuity within a state of alarm and aggression. There just is no way to peaceably create a better world from so much overwhelm, disembodiment, informational berating, and division. I refuse to be part of perpetuating that. I want to choose how and where I become informed and I will act how I see fit to better things within my capacity. If that causes me to appear to others as that I am apathetic, well then I pity their limited scope on the complexity of the human practice of learning and growing. It is really hard to live in all of this, it’s really hard to figure out how to spend your time and energy with what you truly believe and value. It takes time.
I respect that there are people who are grieving, I am grieving for all the hardship and challenges coming our way with these changes, many of them harmful. Also, I respect that there are people who are celebrating. I am not celebrating, but I am curious and open-minded to see if there can be any positive change to come. This country’s political system needs an overhaul and sometimes that can only happen after a great trial. Also, I am trying not to shut anyone out even if they are being obnoxious about their political side being ‘picked’. I know I have been obnoxious in the past and am continuing to learn how to navigate a more…grace-filled path.
That’s all I wish to say here on this matter. Just know I am always open for respectful discussion so never feel afraid to approach and engage with me.