Political Dreams and Electoral Nightmares
The politics of the last few weeks have really highlighted how many folks project their dreams and wants on the news cycle as it spins
Nothing really starts a day off like being offered your dream job and having to turn it down, at least for now, all before 7:35 am on a Friday.
To be fair, when it was offered to me the individual pitching it lead off with a variation of “I know you probably can’t but I wouldn’t feel right not at least talking to you about it.” There have been previous collaborations and there are future plans to work together, and the relationship is there to do something big in the future. But I did have to say no, and it did hurt. A lot. I had me a good sad for a while about it. But I made the right decision, and the groundwork for something better, or at least with better timing, is laid out for the future.
Learning to deal with having what you want in front of you and denying yourself that thing is base-level adult behavior. Toddlers struggle with this. Teens struggle with this. When adults struggle with this, their lives and the lives of those around them get messed up and complicated in a hurry.
The politics of the last few weeks have really highlighted how many folks project their…
