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5 November 2002 (Tuesday): goodbye and hello

The personal is political, as they always say. On the microcosmic level, I think something historical has happened.

- I choose you. I choose you and I'm not looking back.
- Wait just a minute though.
- What?
- We've been over this before: you don't have to decide this right now. We can take our time with this, see how things progress. If they get worse, if it becomes a matter of losing one or the other, I don't want to you feel trapped by a promise you made.
- No, let me explain what I meant.
- Okay.
- I mean that it's not going to be about them. It's not going to be their life to dictate, theirs to prevent or to allow. It's going to be about us, and not what someone else thinks of it.
- ...okay.
- Maybe I said it wrong just now. What I really mean is: I choose me.
- There you go.
- I choose to trust my own judgment, to take responsibility for my own decisions. I choose that and I'm not looking back.
- That's more like it. That's what really matters.

Off to the voting booth.

posted by enjelani @ 02:59 PM PST

Replies: 1 comment

a declaration of independence, as it were?

that document was, of course, only the beginning. :)

(good-bye and hello ... ;)

posted by z @ 05 11 2002 05:11 PM PST