Election Day!

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."

C. S. Lewis

Today is Election Day.

From all accounts this will be an historical non-presidential election year.

The turn out at the polls is predicted to surpass any ever seen during a mid term election.

Like many other Americans, I exercised my privilege to be vote.

(Yes it is a privilege not a right!)

For weeks I have been hearing that this election will have consequences that will effect my life in the most profound ways.

This I can guarantee!

Why you ask?

How do I know?

Simple.

The last vote that I cast today was for myself.

I have voted to turn off all of the noise.

No more news.

No more noise.

Tomorrow morning when I wake up, I will have no way of knowing if there was a blue or red wave.

I just don't care anymore!

Unless there is a direct immediate consequence to my existence , I don't need to know about it.

Do sports scores really mean anything to me?

Nope!

Neither does any of the rest of it.

I will not even check the weather.

The radio station that I listen to has a no news format.

Seriously,no news.

They do have weather and traffic updates , so I imagine I will have to suffer through them.

Other than that, I may as well be living in a cabin in the woods with no contact to the outside world.

You may be asking why I have chosen to do this.

Again, it's very simple....it just doesn't matter to me.

The only news item that has had a direct effect on my life this century may have been 9-11.

Yes, I knew people who died when the towers came down.

Thankfully, that had no direct effect on me.

The only effect that this one event had on me quite honestly was a few years of devastating financial and professional set backs.

Other than that, a few days without my cell phone and some changes in the way I travel.

Besides that,life goes on.

I don't need to hear anymore of the nasty rhetoric that fills the daily news cycle.

I will not have conversations about any of it unless it has some impact on me in this moment.

I'm done.

Depending on which side of the fence ,(I don't dare use the word wall), you sit on and the results of the election, there is bound to be more and more ill will and disgusting behavior.

It just won't be coming from me.

Don't need it,won't have it.

I'm done!