An Amazing Thing.

Something happened last night during the election coverage. I felt something powerful and moving that I’ve never felt before. Watching President Barack Obama’s acceptance speech, I was overcome by something that I still can’t describe. Was it inspiration? Was it overwhelming hope, or a new found sense of pride about being American that I’ve never felt before? I don’t know.

Last night, for the first time in my life I felt ready to follow someone. Last night I wondered if this is what it felt like for Americans when Kennedy was President. It was the first time I’ve felt proud of who we are in the world. Last night I finally thought, this is the America that everyone across the world has hoped for and I get to be a part of making it true.

This is bigger than me, and I am moved by that. This no longer feels like the America of excess and waste, or arrogance and ego - the selfish America of consumerism and greed. Today, even if just for a moment - I feel that America can actually stand for something, and I want to hold onto this feeling as long as I can.

By Monday, Fox News will be nit picking his choices and the pundits will start their blathering on, but for now I feel very in touch with what our founding fathers intended for this country is designing our democracy because America just staged a coup and threw out the old government. I just watched revolution, in a way that only America can stage it. No sit ins, no hippies, no one chained to a tree - Americans finally figured out that we had the power all along, and we used it to take back the country from our own cynicism and selfishness, and rip our hope out of the hands of a corrupt government.

I don’t necessarily know yet what it is that means so much, but for the first time I feel a sense of duty to help - maybe because for the first time in my life I’ve been asked to.

Barack Obama has given me an amazing thing today.

This next 4 years….this is going to be exciting.