Elections!

Well, my friends, let me tell you what bullsh*** we have turned this election thing into. I just happened to see a very old friend on-line, someone I've knows for some 10 years. When I told him that I haven't gone to vote, he simply said that he "didn't want to talk to such a person"! Maybe I'm wrong. But I believe elections to be a matter of personal choice, a decision, a sign of individuality. What happened?

Whatever happened to all that? When did we stop thinking for ourselves and lost every shred of self-respect and integrity we ever had in a "masses are right" attitude? Isn't being political a choice? Is choosing your own path out of the question? Can't you decide what you decide at the cost of sometimes being wrong?

Today, I chose not to vote, not because I didn't care. Not because I didn't believe. I chose not to vote, because voting would have been a betrayal of what I believe in. I didn't vote because I didn't think I had a choice. Anyone I could have chosen to vote for today would make an even bigger mess of all things.

Today, I stayed at home because I have always put my trust in the person I voted for. I might have made a bad choice. My candidate may not even have won. Nevertheless, I had believed. Not today. I didn't even see it remotely possible that today's candidates would have made a difference. I didn't vote out of respect for those who have, and will.

Would it have been better to vote for someone simply because my friends would have wanted me to? I don't even know why I'm explaining myself. I don't need to justify. What I did today was a well-thought-out act based on a belief system; something that most of my generation seems to lack these days.

I hope you, all you gullible self-righteous idiots out there who think you have earned the right to judge, would stop and think what really makes you vote? For me, it was a first not to, because I consider the consequences of my actions and then actually act! Hope you can say the same! Or did you just vote because you're a misguided clueless stupidity-incarnate rat who's the most worthless part of an even worse mob!