Can’t Wait for November 8th!
Woman in the Middle | October 14, 2016Boy, I can’t wait for November 8th, election day, to get here. For any of you not currently living in another country or in a cave somewhere, I don’t need to explain any more. However, the unfortunate tone that has invaded our national election seems to have trickled down into the local elections in my area as well. And I am up for election in a local race. Yee gads!
I don’t know about you, but I can acknowledge that a human being may have some redeeming qualities, may be a good parent, a fine neighbor, a supportive spouse, even if I feel they are wholly unsuited for the office they are running for. Even if I think they are a lying scalawag, I know someone loves them, and that means they have some of those redeeming qualities.
Then someone who really dislikes me for reasons unknown to me posts on a social media site that she heard I had dropped out of the race. Really? Is that called for? So I took a deep breath, posted something on Facebook to reassure my friends that I am still running, and wondered if there is anything else I should do. I started writing this post when I got a notification about a post on a Facebook page called “Dallas’s World.”
Dallas is a teen boy, son of an acquaintance, who has been fighting cancer. He was getting his final round of chemo at the beginning of the month but is now feeling very bad. He has no immune system at the moment and is in a great deal of pain. He is obviously fighting an infection, but they need to figure out where. Gosh, my world just got a major correction. Facebook bullies are bad, but not as bad as what Dallas and his family are going through.
So I will take another deep breath, stay off of Facebook, eat some chocolate, take a walk, and try to keep the world in better perspective. Oh, and I will also pray very hard for Dallas. Him getting better is much more important than any old election.
I couldn’t run for an elected position. I couldn’t take the personal attacks. We are all human and have done things that we regret. I don’t want to see them as headlines. This is a good reminder that there are real problems around.
Don’t think I haven’t been thinking about why I am doing this to myself….
Do you know the person who said it? Are you sure you are not jumping to conclusions? I jump to conclusions often, and so I need to stop and ask myself if I am doing this.