11/05/2024
I had an interaction with a kid at a coffee shop who isn’t voting today but said that if he was, he’d vote for DT. And then asked me who I had voted for. After I told him I voted for KH, we had a great interaction about our common good. I realized that all of us have our priorities. Usually those priorities are dictated by our life experiences: what’s important to us is usually what affects us the most, which is natural and understandable. It’s also a privilege, to not have to consider that what others are going through might be worse than what you are going through. You might worry about losing your job, while someone else is worried about finding a place to live or surviving child birth. I left that interaction with smiles, a fist bump, and a general sense that as Americans, we have the power to be better than who we vote to lead us. That is what will heal and save our country - we must individually have more love, more compassion, and more understanding than anyone who leads us. Then our fate, is in our hands. “Be curious, not judgmental” or we risk missing information we have yet to learn through our own experience. This is empathy. ❤️🇺🇸 BTW this is my niece… isn’t she the cutest??!
