I would like to agree with you, but I find it is too much for me. I worked my absolute hardest to be happy on Wednesday for reasons of my own, but I spent the rest of the week inexplicably sad and have had a hard time recovering from it.
And it wasn't because of the election that I was sad. I've seen just enough stupid politics in my short informed life that I know I will spend the better part of the rest of my life cleaning up someone else's mess. (That's what I do, I clean up.) The thing that makes me saddest is the reaction of the liberals I know. They spent the two days after the election being absolutely horrid to the only people who cared, each other. My friends yelled at each other, they called each other names, they blamed each other for what happened. That's why I was sad. And because somehow being happy became a bad thing, the day after the election.
I'm not going to go off on you about being upset, because I think you deserve it, I absolutely respect your need to grieve. But more important than that, I am going to do is applaud you for stiking with your convictions and not yelling at anyone, and for being optimistic enough to get up off the dirt and spend time doing something other than bitch about it. Makes you one of the most level-headed people I know right now. Which is strange considering you just wrote about being emotional. Funny how that works. Ok, I'm done now... long and pointless comment over... thank you.
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Date: 2004-11-08 09:22 pm (UTC)From:And it wasn't because of the election that I was sad. I've seen just enough stupid politics in my short informed life that I know I will spend the better part of the rest of my life cleaning up someone else's mess. (That's what I do, I clean up.) The thing that makes me saddest is the reaction of the liberals I know. They spent the two days after the election being absolutely horrid to the only people who cared, each other. My friends yelled at each other, they called each other names, they blamed each other for what happened. That's why I was sad. And because somehow being happy became a bad thing, the day after the election.
I'm not going to go off on you about being upset, because I think you deserve it, I absolutely respect your need to grieve. But more important than that, I am going to do is applaud you for stiking with your convictions and not yelling at anyone, and for being optimistic enough to get up off the dirt and spend time doing something other than bitch about it. Makes you one of the most level-headed people I know right now. Which is strange considering you just wrote about being emotional. Funny how that works. Ok, I'm done now... long and pointless comment over... thank you.