I'm So Tired
HAVING HOPE IS exhausting. Hope is more exhausting than hatred, because at least vitriol is a feeling that is often rooted in an objective thing or person. Hope is more exhausting than sadness, because sorrow is the feeling that succeeds unfulfilled hope or ignorance. Sadness is a reality check, an unwanted confrontation that one's desires and needs will not be met, and more so, that those same desires and needs will be actively put down and infringed upon. I had hoped that the next four years in this country would be of mending some form of normalcy, that it would be an ushering in of new ideas and a more relevant, tapped in perspective from younger leaders. I had hope that, despite all of the hateful rhetoric, all of the blatant misinformation, all of the ugliness that came from Trump and the Republican Party, that, like in 2020, the American people would choose sanity over MAGA. I was clearly wrong. I underestimated the American people and I particularly underestimated Ge...
