Post Election depression
I'm not sure why, but these last two days I have actually been feeling a little bit of a let down from the election. Not because of the results—I am very excited about Obama. And not because of Proposition 8 (Which is causing a different sort of depression). But something else.
Obma is something I have hoped and looked forward to for so long that now it is here, I don't know how to feel. Kind of an anticlimactic win. I read through the many, many excited facebook status updates. I read the many excited blogs. I was listening to NPR again today, and they had a piece called World Have Your Say. In it they talked about different countries reactions to the election, and basically, everyone is hopeful. I would not want to be Obama right now, let me tell you that.
I think I am just feeling very anxious about the future. During the last eight years, I didn't care. I didn't listen because I knew that what I was going to hear wasn't going to make me happy, and that there was nothing I could do about it. But now I feel like some really good things can happen but for some reason instead of feeling hopeful, I am feeling very nervous. I have something invested in what happens this time.
It doesn't help that the switch isn't going to happen for another couple months.
7 November 2008 08:06am UTC • 336 views • 2 comments
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Boots
7 November 2008 01:42pm UTC
I know what you mean. It's also strange that for the first time in eight years I'm actually excited about who is president. It's really, really strange.
Steve the Interloper
7 November 2008 06:56pm UTC
I'm right there with you. It was impossible to be disappointed by Bush because I expected him to be awful (and he never let me down on that expectation). But I want Obama to be great, and it's *inevitable* that he'll disappoint me on some issues great or small.