I Vote Yes

Politics have never been my favorite subject. Everyone has an opinion; most of them stole their opinions from their parents or their friends, who got them from their parents, who got them from their friends and so on. No opinion is really anyone’s own. But in politics, someone always wins and someone always loses. It’s similar to life, only we don’t get to vote on our lives and we can’t strike a bad decision from the record. It’s there and we move on.
Like politics, we have many choices in life. We can choose where we work, how we dress, who leads us, where we eat, where we live–in most cases– and we can choose who we become. Every day is our own little government making executive decisions. They wake up and say, “All in favor of the red shirt day I, all apposed, same sign.” The red shirt it is. Yes, this is a minor example of a daily choice, but it is one of the first we make. Our miniature government has a more important job than our wardrobe. They decide our mood, our actions, our daily struggles. They do a good portion of work and never get paid.
It is obvious that I speak of imaginary politicians because I say they don’t get paid. A politician wouldn’t be what we know as a politician if his salary wasn’t double our own. How else would they pay for their Armani suits and expensive salads? But our internal dialog, which I formerly referred to as our miniature government, is important. Without them, we would stare blankly into the pantry every morning saying, “Um?” Instead we hear a battle of healthy fruits versus unhealthy sugary cereal.
Back to the opinion. Do we allow of mini government to decide it for us, or do we allow our peers and various other influences to form it for us? Our minds are probably one of the only things that aren’t currently controlled by government. Even that is fast coming, but that is another story. We shouldn’t sacrifice our opinions to people-please. That’s not why God gave us the power of choice, it was so that we may choose.
So choose, your voice or the world?
JD Hunt