I'm not writing this post as a way to debate anyone; I'm just trying to get my thoughts and feelings out. If you disagree with what I have to say, please just scroll on by and leave me be. I have as much right to my thoughts and feelings as you; and that is all these are: thoughts and feelings.
I still do not understand how Donald Trump won the election. If Hillary Clinton won the popular vote (a fact no one has disputed), and the Electoral College is supposed to vote *with* the People, then Hillary should have won. I've read a few articles declaring that "the average citizen just does not understand how the election process truly works." Well, then, explain it to us; please! We are not complete morons. In this age of 24/7 news channels and the Internet, Americans have more ways than ever before of learning about their candidates and making the choice they believe in. If the Electoral College is not legally required to vote the way the People vote, then exactly what IS the point of the Electoral College? In this age of computers, why can't we just cast our votes electronically from home, and have a mainframe computer somewhere programmed to count the votes up as they come in? All that would be needed is for one person to write a program that would let the computers do everything else!
Tuesday, November 22, 2016
Monday, November 21, 2016
So, here's the thing...
As much as I used to *love* writing as a child, as an adult, it seems like I just can't do it now. It isn't that I don't want to, or that I don't have any ideas. I have a million ideas, and I *think* about writing all the time; but the minute I go to actually *do* it, my brain freezes. The thing is, I'm scared to write.
Why am I scared? I lived with my parents until I was 23, and my parents didn't believe in privacy for their children. Diaries, journals, letters, poems, lists, homework assignments - all were fair game. If my parents didn't like what I wrote for *any* reason, an argument ensued. As a child, I didn't think about what I was writing, or why I was writing it; I just wrote. But my parents didn't believe that. They believed I was writing to make them look bad. Half the stuff I wrote wasn't even about them; it was fictional stuff. Yes, some of it might have been based on them, but there is a difference. It didn't matter. Once they (with emphasis on my mom) had it in their heads that I was writing something bad, especially if they thought it was about them, I got in trouble.
This didn't just happen when I was a child. I wrote poems, stories, and letters to friends as an adult; if my parents read them (if I accidentally left something out in the open), and didn't like what I'd written, I got yelled at. Not just "hey, don't write this stuff," but long, loud yelling.
Any time I start to write now, I begin thinking that I'm writing is something that could get me in trouble with my parents. I'm 40 years old and worried about getting in trouble with my parents! How dumb is that? I know it's dumb. But it's how I feel.
Why am I scared? I lived with my parents until I was 23, and my parents didn't believe in privacy for their children. Diaries, journals, letters, poems, lists, homework assignments - all were fair game. If my parents didn't like what I wrote for *any* reason, an argument ensued. As a child, I didn't think about what I was writing, or why I was writing it; I just wrote. But my parents didn't believe that. They believed I was writing to make them look bad. Half the stuff I wrote wasn't even about them; it was fictional stuff. Yes, some of it might have been based on them, but there is a difference. It didn't matter. Once they (with emphasis on my mom) had it in their heads that I was writing something bad, especially if they thought it was about them, I got in trouble.
This didn't just happen when I was a child. I wrote poems, stories, and letters to friends as an adult; if my parents read them (if I accidentally left something out in the open), and didn't like what I'd written, I got yelled at. Not just "hey, don't write this stuff," but long, loud yelling.
Any time I start to write now, I begin thinking that I'm writing is something that could get me in trouble with my parents. I'm 40 years old and worried about getting in trouble with my parents! How dumb is that? I know it's dumb. But it's how I feel.
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