Election Day 2024

Unfiltered Human Thoughts #21
Dear Everyone,

I’m nervous and apathetic about this election. I worry about civil war, I miss my sister.

Those are two separate thoughts and I’m judging myself for all of them.

The predominant feeling I have is that I need to keep my head down and keep working. I’m already behind on my credit cards and I have a baby coming. My sister just passed away and I can’t stop blaming myself. I’m stuck in a rut yet excited about my baby.

I don’t know what my career will look like in a year. I’m entering adulthood in a tizzy, just like I entered consciousness.

I felt overwhelmed immediately, I just wanted to look at a bug or three and felt that I immediately needed to start learning shapes and animal sounds. Now I wish I had paid more attention so I could identify bird calls. And that’s the thing, or at least that’s the thing about the millennial upbringing, it was confusing, it was riddled with problems and they weren’t all just my family.

Although a lot of them were. My great great great uncle twice-removed was President Franklin Pierce (D) and he helped incite the first civil war. I think my inaction and apathy throughout my life will start the second.

You see the only thing that will avert the second civil war is a New Continental Congress, and the only thing that will bring back my sister is a Time Machine. Both are equally plausible.

Sincerely,

Lucian.