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Beautiful People,
The elections are over and in the sea of words, I’d like to be a castaway on an island of silence.
For a little while, I don’t want to listen to any more words coming out of the mouths of know-all reporters, inclined pollsters, unmerited politicians, loud talk-show hosts, rowdy celebrities, and everyone else who holds an irrefutable opinion. I want to exile away from the media cacophony and be surrounded by silence.
I need silence to find my own explanation to the events of 2016 elections. To be completely honest with myself, fully unbiased and take “Cheshbon Nefesh”, a Jewish spiritual practice that means “self-accounting” or metaphorically, I’d like to create a personal balance sheet.
I’d like to sift through all the opinions, perceptions, insights I’ve heard over the last two years and determine which ones were mine and which were planted in my head.
I’d like to go over every item, even the small ones, and find my voice.
Have no mistake:THE REPUBLICAN PARTY DIDN’T WIN THE ELECTIONS; they won the congress majority. It is the first time after a very long time that an INDEPENDENT CANDIDATE WINS THE ELECTIONS.
Trump won despite the media, the celebrities, the administration, the GOP, the educated, the rich, the elite. He won independently. And I need to think what does this all mean.
Rules change offers an opportunity. We are privileged to have the option to change. We are lucky to have the right to examine, explore, and study a different model. Across the world people live and die without an option to rebuild and reestablish their future.
I want to be surrounded by silence because I have a terrible feeling that I listened to other people’s thoughts for too long. That I had been influenced by an overpowering irresistible noise. That I had kept quiet when I needed to speak up. That I acknowledged the media's smug superiority, but I haven’t protested as much as I needed or should have.
On my island of silence, I’d like to think about my American dream. The American dream of a highly-skilled legal immigrant who has had the choice to live anywhere in the world, and chose America.
TODAY, I CHOOSE AMERICA ONCE AGAIN, because it is the only place in the world that allows the existence of such elections.
To the people of other nations who poke fun at America I say, poor you for not living in America. And to my fellow Americans who look for alternatives, I wish good luck in finding nirvana.
I know that a change is on the way, and to be able to accept it, I must acknowledge the reality I have ignored for too long.
I’ll think silently knowing that great tomorrows are waiting to happen.
XO,
Sharon
The elections are over and in the sea of words, I’d like to be a castaway on an island of silence.
For a little while, I don’t want to listen to any more words coming out of the mouths of know-all reporters, inclined pollsters, unmerited politicians, loud talk-show hosts, rowdy celebrities, and everyone else who holds an irrefutable opinion. I want to exile away from the media cacophony and be surrounded by silence.
I need silence to find my own explanation to the events of 2016 elections. To be completely honest with myself, fully unbiased and take “Cheshbon Nefesh”, a Jewish spiritual practice that means “self-accounting” or metaphorically, I’d like to create a personal balance sheet.
I’d like to sift through all the opinions, perceptions, insights I’ve heard over the last two years and determine which ones were mine and which were planted in my head.
I’d like to go over every item, even the small ones, and find my voice.
Have no mistake:THE REPUBLICAN PARTY DIDN’T WIN THE ELECTIONS; they won the congress majority. It is the first time after a very long time that an INDEPENDENT CANDIDATE WINS THE ELECTIONS.
Trump won despite the media, the celebrities, the administration, the GOP, the educated, the rich, the elite. He won independently. And I need to think what does this all mean.
Rules change offers an opportunity. We are privileged to have the option to change. We are lucky to have the right to examine, explore, and study a different model. Across the world people live and die without an option to rebuild and reestablish their future.
I want to be surrounded by silence because I have a terrible feeling that I listened to other people’s thoughts for too long. That I had been influenced by an overpowering irresistible noise. That I had kept quiet when I needed to speak up. That I acknowledged the media's smug superiority, but I haven’t protested as much as I needed or should have.
On my island of silence, I’d like to think about my American dream. The American dream of a highly-skilled legal immigrant who has had the choice to live anywhere in the world, and chose America.
TODAY, I CHOOSE AMERICA ONCE AGAIN, because it is the only place in the world that allows the existence of such elections.
To the people of other nations who poke fun at America I say, poor you for not living in America. And to my fellow Americans who look for alternatives, I wish good luck in finding nirvana.
I know that a change is on the way, and to be able to accept it, I must acknowledge the reality I have ignored for too long.
I’ll think silently knowing that great tomorrows are waiting to happen.
XO,
Sharon
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