With Election day upon us it think it’s important to remember that real ‘change’, the kind of change that can truly impact lives for better (or for worse) does not come solely in the form of the act we call “voting”. I wish it did because things would be much more simple but in order for real transformation to occur, American’s will have to embrace the thing they hate most…an acknowledgement that the status quo isn’t working.
An author by the name of Margaret Feinberg put it this way: "The question many Americans are asking is 'Who is going to be elected on November 4th?' But I'm not convinced that's the best question to ask. I believe the greater question that we should be asking is 'How are we going to live on November 5th?' - How are we going to be apart of the healing and rebuilding that our nation and world so desperately need?"
Voting is an important civil duty of all citizens and I don’t want to discourage you from exercising that right. But whether Barack Obama wins or John McCain, I think the realization must be made that they are only politicians. Yes, one will most likely get hyped up as the new Commander-in-Chief of the leader of the Free World, but we must become conscious to the fact that the same institution, which makes them so powerful, is also the one that limits their ability to become a catalyst for true transformation. “Be the change you want to see in the world.”
‘There has never been anything false about Hope’, but it’s time we open our eyes and see that we’re not helping anyone if we start looking at others, no matter how powerful they are or can be, to provide the Hope in our own world. You want change? Start with changing yourself.
Thanks for reading.
Grant Hultgren
*The views in this written piece are those of Grant Hultgren and not necessarily of Colleen Callahan…though I still encourage you to sling abuse her way for letting me post it on her blog J Thanks Colleen for letting me contribute.
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