Reply #115: exactly what I thought when I read it [View All]

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I've been thinking about this for the past couple of weeks. When Election Day was far away it was easy to get excited about how change was coming, but as the day came closer and closer I started thinking about 2004 all over again. God, what an unspeakably horrible night that was... and I kept reliving it and worrying about going through another one, etc etc.

This thread is one of several reminders I've had recently that this is not a productive use of my energy.

A friend of mine once told me that "worrying is praying for what you don't want." That really rang a bell with me and has helped me cut a lot of worrying off at the pass. My monkey mind still does takes an idea and plays with it and doesn't want to let it go--sure, I know that the Republicans have the machines and the incentive and the ability, etc etc. But this time, I also know that the will of the people is really strong this time, and collectively, we and our energy are stronger now than we were two years ago.