Inauguration Blues

Needless to say, I wouldn't have voted for Obama if i was of voting age. I would have "thrown my vote away" on some, some, third party. (Pardon the annoying text thrown in by the video poster.) But, the day has come for Barrack Obama to be sworn into office. I watched the speech and all that, listened to the poem (man, that woman is a horrible speaker). Etc. Etc.

It's a pretty big deal-

Even though I don't think it's going to be all this change like he's talking, like all politicians talk,

It's still a big deal.

A fairly funny thing happened the other day-

I changed my facebook status (oh lord) to "Just Marino can't decide what makes him sicker; false messianism or judas-like traitors." And some (random) girl comments "they're both equally as sickening." Fine. So it didn't really add anything, but I'm not that critical of people that i would have said anything before thinking about it this second, and I'm only thinking about it because of what happened next.

Ten minutes later, she updated her status to "obama" with that little heart thing at the end that i just don't know how to do.

I guess it's not inauguration day anymore. Oh well.

The point is, it's weird for me.

See, I haven't really known too many presidents in my life time.

I'm 17, which means bush took office when i was 9.

I was old enough to know i didn't like him, but not old enough to know why.

Essentially, all of my conscious lifetime, GWB has been president-

this is, in fact, a change.

It's also feeling that the world is very different than when bush took office,

but of course-

I was nine.

Everything was different back then. That was before middle school.

Actually, I remember when the world changed.

Nine-Eleven.

That was the first major, world changing event I was old enough to grasp.

I remember it being explained to me (by my older sister) that it was "never going to be the same."

It never was.

So this is another change.

Things change.

I guess I'll carry on the tradition, and explain to a youngster somewhere:

It's never going to be the same.