I have come to the realization after last week that there is NO going back in time. Most of my Facebook friends consist of high school friends. Now I graduated in 1979 and some of these folks I have not seen in many many years. During high school I /we never gave much thought to politics. My time was often spent drinking and partying. Also I was raised by a step father and my mom who were extremely conservative. So all my life all I ever heard was how horrible liberal democrats were. So when it came time for me to vote I never checked it out for myself and voted the way my folks did because I never really paid attention to what was going on for myself. Even after high school politics was never a huge concern of mine because I figured it was all fixed anyway so why bother. Once I went out into the world and saw first hand what was going on my whole attitude changed and I began paying more attention.
People grow up and sometimes grow apart. It happens it is just the way life is. Many of my high school friends from the conservative hometown where I was raised are still extremely conservative and forceful in their beliefs just as I am in my liberal beliefs. With both these forces coming to a head there is no way to come to an understanding so I end up losing their Facebook friend status and that is okay. We are not kids anymore we are grown up adults now and most of us have families and responsibilities. We all also have our own ways of looking at things and at situations.
There's no going back so I am going forward with or without my hometown high school FaceBook friends. I am an adult and I am going to vote for the person that I feel is the best person for the job just as my conservative hometown high school friends are. That is called democracy.
These are my thoughts and feelings from Jillsville
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