The First Day Of The Rest Of My Life

[poliphilo]

I made a resolution yesterday: I'm going to stop taking a day to day, close-up interest in politics. What good has it ever done me or anybody else? It's a bad habit and merely stirs up negativity.

As it happens I dreamed about Gordon Brown last night. He was presiding over a school dance. I guess my subconscious had clocked a resemblance between him and "Ted" Maidment- popular history teacher of my youth- and  was using it to seal the pact. Discipline at school dances was pretty strict- no snogging, no hanky-panky- but Ted was permissive and looked the other way when I sloped off to the curtained cubicle with my partner. Good bloke. In the dream I felt about Gordon the way I felt about Ted. 

And now I'm off to vote against him in the local elections.

Comments

[wolfshift.livejournal.com]

I made a resolution yesterday: I'm going to stop taking a day to day, close-up interest in politics. What good has it ever done me or anybody else? It's a bad habit and merely stirs up negativity.

Yeah, I've long held that position. I only give the news a cursory glance (and absolutely not right before bed!) so I have a general sense of what's going on, but I realised years ago that following the details of world events and politics only causes me anger and anxiety. The overwhelming majority of it is stuff that I can't do anything about and that hardly has any influence on my life anyway, so I have no need of it in my awareness.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

The only way I can influence political events- and even then not really, because I've always lived in "safe" seats where only one party had a chance- is by voting. Otherwise, why worry?