There's so little energy left, and yet so much to take on.

[symph]

I'm sitting here feeling like someone pulled the plug on my energy stores and they're slowly seeping out of me. Is this because I have a wee baby that I'm trying to sleep train through the night? Or is it the effect of getting older? I have a feeling it's more that just being the mom of a 6 month old baby. I feel tired all over. I think of all the

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[cat57]

We live in a great country and what ever political party is in power, Canada will continue to thrive because of the people...not because of the politicians. that's what I tell my self anyway. I hate all this doom and gloom over any elections.

[symph]

No, I think the political party in charge matters greatly. We see throughout history what bad leadership does to a country, regardless of how great the people are.

[cat57]

true...but in Canada's case I have lived through liberal, conservative and even a provincial NDP gov't (Bob Rae in Ontario) and we are still standing strong as a country....but I must admit there have been more corruption in the past decade (sponsorship scandal, Mulroney's cash envelopes).

I am still processing the results of the last election...so many pro's and cons...can't decide if the result is good or bad. I am relieved to see a majority gov't (even though it is the conservatives) and a strong socialist opposition. With that combo I don't see all the gloom that a lot of people are expressing. Time will tell.

[torscha]

It's election time in Singapore as well. Such excitement!

Things are a bit different for me. I'm working in education and daily I see terrible things, horrible practices perpetuated by laziness or wrong-headedness or just sheer inertia, and I rage. In the workplace I display little regard for protocol. I was reprimanded today for sending out a mass email deploring racist behaviour among students because some people felt that my email implied that staff members were complicit in that behaviour -- guilty consciences driving hypocrites to lash out in self-preservation. I am a thin shell holding back a fire that sometimes feels like it could consume the world. I can't imagine feeling tired.

[chinpudding]

Your baby is six months old already??? Wow I'm a jerk! I came back online figuring you'd probably had the wee one by now maybe he's a couple months old, tops!

Congratulations, Mare. Super belated and all.

I feel so defeated. There is so much to do, and I feel like one tiny person with a tiny, tired voice, trying to convince a tsunami to turn around and head back to the ocean.

This. So much THIS. Boy do I relate (in my own way). But it's not so, it's just a trick of the mind's eye. It's only when you feel it in your mind, your heart, your soul, deep down to the very bone that you're truly defeated and even then the tiniest ray of hope can always turn the tide. so no. YOU are the tsunami, Mare. BE the tsunami!!

Okay enough hyperkintetic nonsense from me. Thanks for still being on the planet.

xxox.