Nexeus Fatale

Tonights election brings forth some powerful personal thoughts usually reserved for my own private journal, however I felt the need to share it with you tonight. Please enjoy!

If you have been told to live down your dream, not reach for the stars, or that you’ll never achieve your wildest aspirations, tonight is an example that you can achieve any dream, aspiration or star. Situations never thought of, forbidden, or even looked down upon can become amazing, breathtaking realities that prove that inspire and make very bold statements!

To those who feel beat their dreams are out of reach, that personal goals are unachievable, that failure is eminent due to the hard times and horrible situations that encompass your life, tonight an example has been set. An example that demonstrates the need to stop making excuses, discontinue the needless bickering, and disallow doubt that will impede progress and focused on your personal statement of “Yes I Can.”

Barack Obama’s historic achievement tonight will be focused as an achievement to be shared by many Black American’s much like myself. However it shared also be shared for the lessons that it has demonstrated. Regardless of the the hardships you possibly face: the lost job, the loss in a family, the breakup, the inability to get the things you need; you can achieve successes where failure seems to loom.  You can bring together people of opposing ideas and change the status quo.

Tonight is a validation of what I’ve believed my entire life. That if you believe in yourself, you can be successful.

What ever issues, problems, and circumstances plauge you right now, take a look at tonight as a sign of hope. A beacon that says “what ever the odds, I’ll come out of this for the better.” This message is one often forgotten, lost in the hardships and struggles of everyday life. It is a message I need to be reminded of every so often and I’m overjoyed that examples such as tonights show that whatever my struggles are (and I have some huge ones) that they will be overcome. Its a message that has been well demonstrated by President Elect Barack Obama.

In closing, remember that yes, you can. Tonight, as a country yes we can and did! It is a historical night for Barack Obama, for those whom voted for the first or millionth time, and for everyone who ever aspires to become their dreams.

"Fired Up, Ready to Vote" poster from the Obama Campaign (http://www.flickr.com/photos/barackobamadotcom/3003442822/)

In New York, there’s just under 6 hours left to vote, polls close at 9pm. All throughout the country there’s still time to vote! Go, vote! I voted for Barack Obama, and I think you should as well. If you disagree, vote for McCain, or your own write in candidate, but just VOTE!

If you don’t know where to vote, use Google Maps to find your voting location.

I also share my experience of voting today on Utterli, take a listen:

This week, there has been mass hysteria, protests, and anger over a change in policies announced by Linden Lab. A large amount of energy has been poured into getting others involved in fighting the changes, most of which don’t become enacted two months from now.

It is my sincere hope, my largest wish that the same energy that was poured into this sort of activism is poured into this years election. What Linden Lab does to OS sims pales in comparison to what electing the wrong person for president would do.

There are more important things. Spend the next 30 minutes and watch below and you’ll see one of them.

It is hard to talk about 9/11 without repeated every other mention of the tragic event. It is even harder as a New York native to discuss it without having fits of rage, anger and disappointment quickly following any recognition of courage and bravery that many undertook on that fateful day 7 years ago. 9/11 effects this generation the same way the Pearl Harbor effected a previous one; it will be remembered and has changed much of American life.

Catero Revolution has asked for my personal thoughts on the day and it would be redundant to repeat the same here. The idea of this post is not to talk about 9/11 as so much as it is to discuss one of the lessons learned from it. I believe that the tragic event of 9/11 could have been prevented. Poor leadership with a zeal for revenge politically and personally helped cause this tragedy. The fact the same madman has been elected twice is beyond my own comprehension, but that’s neither here nor there. His actions have reverberated across the world where many more have died than those in the two buildings that sparked this event. There has been much bloodshed, and due to the previous 7 years there is more to come.

The attack that was 9/11 demonstrates how our actions help effect the future. Maybe the events that occurred would have happened regardless, maybe they could have been prevented with a different leadership. We will never know. I do know that many voices do need to be heard, those whom are angry, those whom want change, those whom feel that their own voices are being ignored.

Without getting politics too fudged into this post, I will say that I am a registered Democrat and going to vote for the Democratic nominee of Barack Obama. My opinion is that everyone should vote for him as well, but that is just one opinion. Whether you agree or disagree is irrelevant, the real lesson here is that people should vote. The things we, as citizens of whatever country (although I’m talking to Americans in this post) vote for, stand behind and elect have many ramifications across our own countries but ripples worldwide.

So vote, period. Vote for whatever you believe will prevent another tragedy like 9/11 to happen again, listen to the issues just beyond the rhetoric and become involved. 9/11 has set off a chain of events that will affect the world for many generations to come. At the moment these chain of events are very negative. It shouldn’t have to take another 9/11 for us to realize this lesson.