I wish I could say, "Aw, honey, think positively!" I mean, I could -- but the issues you bring up are realistic, and realistically I don't know what the hell is going to happen. I don't think much of it will be good, no.
Interesting -- 1999 was my shit year, as well. Or at least one of them, the most notable of the past decade and a half or so. Bad fucking Prince mojo or something, shit.
I'm terribly superstitious, with enough logician/atheist background to always be aware that it's stupid. But I've spent this year deeply, bedrock afraid -- my parents aging, before my eyes, and the little voice deep inside my brain whispering, "This could be your last year for this. Last birthday, last Thanksgiving, last Christmas. And what will you have after they're gone? No partner, no children, hardly any local friends. How does it sound, to have Thanksgiving alone, or Christmas?"
Wow, that puts a lump the size of Russia in my throat. Yeah, I'm scared about the coming year. I CAN say that in one specific way I am lighter of heart: Had we elected John McCain, I would be profoundly afraid for the future of this nation, and much of the world in general. I think that McCain would have hit that red button, maybe the first year, maybe later -- but hit it he would have done, and that's TEOTWAWKI.
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Date: 2008-11-29 05:51 pm (UTC)Interesting -- 1999 was my shit year, as well. Or at least one of them, the most notable of the past decade and a half or so. Bad fucking Prince mojo or something, shit.
I'm terribly superstitious, with enough logician/atheist background to always be aware that it's stupid. But I've spent this year deeply, bedrock afraid -- my parents aging, before my eyes, and the little voice deep inside my brain whispering, "This could be your last year for this. Last birthday, last Thanksgiving, last Christmas. And what will you have after they're gone? No partner, no children, hardly any local friends. How does it sound, to have Thanksgiving alone, or Christmas?"
Wow, that puts a lump the size of Russia in my throat. Yeah, I'm scared about the coming year. I CAN say that in one specific way I am lighter of heart: Had we elected John McCain, I would be profoundly afraid for the future of this nation, and much of the world in general. I think that McCain would have hit that red button, maybe the first year, maybe later -- but hit it he would have done, and that's TEOTWAWKI.
*HUGS*