I'm 24, just for the record. That's five presidents and four inaugurations I've lived through. Honestly, I have such a complete lack of interest in all things political and even more so in american politics I had to look that up. I couldn't have named any one of those men beyond Clinton and Bush and I probably couldn't have put them in chronological order. And I have never watched an inauguration, ever.
Today that changed.
I sat and watched the whole thing. I listened to the swearing in and the speeches. Everything. For the first time in my whole life I had a reason to.
The last eight years have been a constant reminder of just how much everything that goes on next door impacts us. It's dragged us down in more ways than I care to count, pulled us in to conflicts and been a weight on the shoulders of all of us. It's something I had never really felt before. So it would be a lie to say that my hopes aren't high, but it would be a bigger lie to say that my concern isn't higher.
But for now I'm going to concentrate on being hopeful. Hang on to the good feeling while I can, you know?
**On a completely unrelated note, let me take a second and say sorry for missing both MLK day AND Edgar Allan Poe's birthday. I spent all day yesterday being really, really, really sick and wasn't in any condition to do much of anything, including posting.
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Five without repeats, but that would have been my guess as well. (Wait... not true, I wasn't totally sure it was Bush, Clinton, Bush - although it is fitting that Clinton got stuck in the middle of all that Bush...)
Hope is all we have...and vodka.
And coffee, let's not forget coffee.
I usually despise politics, but I watched the inauguration too.
My overriding thought was "How can there possibly be enough porta-potties for everyone??"
I wonder how many people ended up peeing on the sidewalk/lawns/fellow citizens.
The media never seems to ask these kinds of questions.
See? This is a perfect example of why I love you. hahahaha...
My overriding thought? "If you're going to sing 'My country, 'tis of thee' you really shouldn't put such a dramatic pause between the 'cunt' and the 'ree'."
(also, why is my spell check thingy telling me the cunt isn't a word?)
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