I, like many, harbor deep uncertainty for the future after
last night’s election results. Perhaps you would rather not think about it and
speaking of it just makes it hurt worse, but I want to briefly share what is
going to help me get through this without transforming into a depressed and
pitiful person. We need to understand that politics are competing philosophies,
and last night some philosophies came into power with which many disagree. A
point of consolation, however, is that no president, governor, senator, judge,
king, queen, lord, supreme leader, or dictator has any jurisdiction over how
you choose to live your life from day to day. The philosophy in power cannot
prevent you from living out your own philosophy. My greatest philosophy
concerning treatment of others is to love them as myself, and that has not
changed. If anything, I now have all the more reason to focus on such a duty. Let
us be deeply saddened today, but not cease in doing good. I hope this doesn’t
sound shallow. I’m not advocating some shallow coping principle here (at least
I hope I’m not!), I’m trying to say that the duty of doing good is just as
important as it has ever been, and that we are honor bound to stay the course.
Take comfort that your little corner of the world can still be affected by you,
and those you affect will affect others, and that is a far more effective way
of spreading general goodness than merely voting. Let’s go do good folks; world
needs it today.
“If we could change ourselves, the tendencies
in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the
attitude of the world change towards him. ... We need not wait to see what
others do.”
-Gandhi
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