I knew there would be a lot of reprisal from the election, no matter the outcome. But I was not prepared for the cutting remarks back and forth between people who are supposed to be "friends." As a result, friends were cutting other friends loose, making harsh statements about friends' choices, closing their facebook pages, and chastising each other on their friends' remarks.
It all makes me very sad. I realize that there are a lot of disappointed Americans out there. But the fact is that we're all Americans and in this together. While our elected President is the head of our country, it is Americans who will pull together and get us through whatever lies ahead. And no matter which candidate won, there would have been fall out and disappointment. I just thought that somehow we would get through these disappointments and still be friends.
I hope that soon all the wounds and hurt feelings from this election will heal - I'm just not sure that the friendships that were lost, will. And in the end, that's the biggest loss - those friendships that meant so much a few days ago, that we accepted in spite of our differences.
Or maybe nothing was really lost. Because in the end, we're friends because one heart touches another. True friends aren't formed based on our commonalities - we're friends because in spite of our differences, we found a strand that binds us together. And no election, no candidate, nobody can break that strand.
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The Good Stuff From Today: outlet shopping and Red Lobstering with Everley and Maribeth; Mathieu and Molly arriving
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