Saturday, November 8, 2008
Thursday, November 6, 2008
The election!
I've been thinking about this recently a lot and just wanted to share my thoughts, by getting them out in the open:
My concerns, did I choose the right President, did we as a whole choose the right president, will he help the economy my son lives in, and will Hudson and all the other babies have the right to grow up in an economy in a country where everything is equal, where everything will be better, does this help us, does it hurt us?
There are so many unkowns, I'm scared of what the outcome will be? I think it makes me a lot more unsure, because I do have someone that I have to raise and be there for him, and this outside world is very scary! With drugs, sex, teen pregnancy, rape, violence, what do you tell your child that the world has come to? I know these have ALL been here and probably have been worse at times? But now I have to deal with it from a whole different perspective!I know that in 4 years it might not affect him as a person as much, but I know that overall it will effect everyone! I hope that with this come change, change for the better, change for Americans, change for the world. I know there are so many things that won't be able to be fixed in 4 short years, but I hope that it will begin the process. I hope that the things that are promised to be changed really will be.
I didn't think that in my lifetime at this young of an age that an African American would become president, I'm proud of our country that it made this change, closing the equality boundries by a fraction, I hope that what Abraham Lincoln said in his Gettysburg Address: that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
I hope this as true as it was then that it will even be truer now! I just continue to pray that we as Americans have chosen the right path, the right way the country needs to go, that we need to focus on us as a whole before we can focus on the outside world. I just look at my son, and know that I want, that I NEED him, to grow up in a soceity where he knows that his voice will be heard, that he will have the right to choose, the right to live, the right to believe in anything and everything he wants to. I have never voted before this election, I've always thought that since I didn't know what they were for, then I shouldn't vote, because I didn't want my vote to sway one way or another, just because that's who I "thought" I should vote for. I never took the time to really understand who or what they stood for, I don't know if it was because I was naive, or I was lazy, or I didn't want to say I voted for the person who hurt our country.
Then as I have my son now, I look back, and see how much people went through to have the RIGHT to vote, especially as a woman, the RIGHT to choose, the RIGHT to live in our FREE country, the RIGHT to live the way that we want to live. So now I have to teach my son that having the RIGHT to do something is a privledge and we should take it as that, that we should get involved and learn new things every day and strive to make a difference. I need to teach him to not take things lightly and to have something to believe in, to strive for, to succeed at! I need for him to know that he can make a difference if he chooses to, and for me to let him choose his own path in life.
My concerns, did I choose the right President, did we as a whole choose the right president, will he help the economy my son lives in, and will Hudson and all the other babies have the right to grow up in an economy in a country where everything is equal, where everything will be better, does this help us, does it hurt us?
There are so many unkowns, I'm scared of what the outcome will be? I think it makes me a lot more unsure, because I do have someone that I have to raise and be there for him, and this outside world is very scary! With drugs, sex, teen pregnancy, rape, violence, what do you tell your child that the world has come to? I know these have ALL been here and probably have been worse at times? But now I have to deal with it from a whole different perspective!I know that in 4 years it might not affect him as a person as much, but I know that overall it will effect everyone! I hope that with this come change, change for the better, change for Americans, change for the world. I know there are so many things that won't be able to be fixed in 4 short years, but I hope that it will begin the process. I hope that the things that are promised to be changed really will be.
I didn't think that in my lifetime at this young of an age that an African American would become president, I'm proud of our country that it made this change, closing the equality boundries by a fraction, I hope that what Abraham Lincoln said in his Gettysburg Address: that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
I hope this as true as it was then that it will even be truer now! I just continue to pray that we as Americans have chosen the right path, the right way the country needs to go, that we need to focus on us as a whole before we can focus on the outside world. I just look at my son, and know that I want, that I NEED him, to grow up in a soceity where he knows that his voice will be heard, that he will have the right to choose, the right to live, the right to believe in anything and everything he wants to. I have never voted before this election, I've always thought that since I didn't know what they were for, then I shouldn't vote, because I didn't want my vote to sway one way or another, just because that's who I "thought" I should vote for. I never took the time to really understand who or what they stood for, I don't know if it was because I was naive, or I was lazy, or I didn't want to say I voted for the person who hurt our country.
Then as I have my son now, I look back, and see how much people went through to have the RIGHT to vote, especially as a woman, the RIGHT to choose, the RIGHT to live in our FREE country, the RIGHT to live the way that we want to live. So now I have to teach my son that having the RIGHT to do something is a privledge and we should take it as that, that we should get involved and learn new things every day and strive to make a difference. I need to teach him to not take things lightly and to have something to believe in, to strive for, to succeed at! I need for him to know that he can make a difference if he chooses to, and for me to let him choose his own path in life.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
