Many of you fear what will happen in the days, weeks and months following this election. You’ve already been in a long depression, fed by dread about civil unrest and a million political and policy implications.
There are Biden and Trump voters among you — sick inside over what might happen if the winner is the guy you opposed.
You feel unhinged about all the yelling back and forth on Facebook and Twitter — a lot of people on there say some crazy shit — and what you see in the media. It seems like every newspaper and TV news show is yelling at you with opinions over facts. Some of you get that reaction from CNN, MSN and the New York Times; others from Fox News, The Wall Street Journal and New York Post.
Whichever political side you’re on, you fear violence in your cities and neighborhoods.
As you nurture these worries, the continuing depressive effect of the pandemic hangs over you like a blanket that rapidly alternates between being soaked and on fire.
I feel it, too — the anxiety, the depression, the anger, the uncertainly.
But I still feel hope. The overreaching part of that hope is the possibility that the worst won’t happen and November 3 will pass us by the way Y2K did at midnight in 2000.
The realistic side of that hope is the knowledge that we’ve fallen into the abyss many times and many of us managed to crawl out of it each time. We’ve seen darkness but the daylight has always followed.
I can’t predict what the coming period will bring. But I’ll be damned if I’m going to let it push me into a corner.
And I will continue to show up.
I trust many of you are of the same mindset. I’ll keep praying for those who aren’t so sure and believe they won’t be able to hang on.
Be well and be safe.
Mood Music:
Hi Bill,
We worked together at Akamai, and I just wanted to tell you how much I enjoyed this piece. You’ve articulated what so many of us feel. Stay safe and sane!
Diane
PS: Love the Battlestar Galactica link on the page. Right up my alley!