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Someone told me this week that I am an “old soul”. I actually get that quite a bit. It’s true I can be a bit serious for my own good. I’m not living the life of a typical 24 year old.
All that to say despite the fact that I have an “old soul” I still find our political process boring. Adding insult to injury, I like politics, I love American history. I find these things very interesting. But the process is a killer, it is excruciatingly boring, contrived, and non-informative. I have never been able to watch a debate in it’s entirety and I actually care about the issues. It’s just too boring and too political to stomach.
In walks modernity dressed in shiny media and real questions from real people. Sigh. Deeper sigh. Finally I can pay attention. Finally I care. Finally I can get some real answers. Finally!
So I’m sitting at home flipping through the channels, and I stop @ the good old CNN and I am totally mesmerized. They are asking questions I would want to ask, they are using a creative format. The candidates don’t know what questions are coming or how they will be formed. The candidates must address real people not just hypothetical issues. Sure some candidates still find it hard to lay off the rhetoric, but several were honest and personal (namely John Edwards) and I felt like for the first time I was getting to know an actual person not just a speech writer.
I guess I’m telling you this, because this new process has refreshed me. I feel like I can reach into the system and participate.
I feel relief. I can care about the process, and maybe it cares about me.
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This post is a lot like folding your laundry.
After you haven’t done it in awhile clothes begin to pile it up and you begin to wonder if you should even bother doing all that folding or hanging of if you should just live out of those piles for the rest of your life.
Lately I’ve been debating: to blog or not to blog. I thought about just stopping no goodbyes no explanations; just leaving it. Then I’ve thought about explaining my busyness, but goodness; everyone is busy, everyone is running at full speed, who needs to hear about other people’s stress all the time? Not me, although I do find it comical
And in honesty, if I had been blogging, that’s all you would have heard about. And “uggg” is what I have to say about that.
For the first time in over a month I feel a space opening above my head, I feel a little bit of breathing room out in front of me, I am taking deep breaths and not hyperventilating.
That’s right, I’m back.
And I have things I want to talk about, including but not limited to
1) You Tube Democratic Debates
2) Scott Baio: 45 and Still Single
3) How to lose 5 cashiers in a week
4) Overspiritualiztion
5) Current musical interests
6) Book idea I’ve been mulling over
7) What is a cult and why I’m not in one
I know it’s almost too much to handle.
