Have you ever been looking at your phone and not be able to see it very well? Do you start obsessing about how your vision must be going because why on earth wouldn't you be able to see! Only to realize that somehow the brightness on your display has gotten turned down and once you solve that problem your worries are gone!
This is how I am feeling during this election season. I try to keep up to date on the candidates. I try to be an informed voter. I want to place an educated vote, but this year is so different. Don't get me wrong every election has its mud slinging but this year it is more like a scene out of Gladiator and we are all the rabid crowd!
So, I stopped. I stopped listening to the news, I stopped reading political based social media. I have blocked friends on both sides of this fight. I will not turn on my television whatsoever except to watch the Voice, because it's awesome.
I am just living my life with the people that make up my life and guess what?! My brightness went way up!!! I have friends that are democrat, friends that are republican, I have friends that are Christian, I have friends that are non-Christian, I have friends that are gay, I have friends that are straight. All we all want is for our world to be bright. It feels as if the media is wanting us to think that the world is a horribly dark place and of course it can be, but it isn't anywhere near as bad as they are portraying.
Go out to day and be a bright spot in someone's day. You don't have to think like them but you also don't need to put them down because they are different from you. Turn up your brightness!
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