history

"The candidates are thinking about, and running for, history. While what they’re also running for, in a seldom-mentioned but curiously moving sense, is to become permanent signposts in the lives of millions of people they will never meet . Something, years from now, those people will use to recall where they were at different junctures in their own lives. Remember that trip we took to the football game, and you lost all your luggage? Oh, I haven’t thought about that in a long time– wasn’t that the year Obama and McCain were running for president?" (bob greene)

we´re living history here. this election is a make or break deal in so many ways, but what this article is talking about is putting politics aside and realizing this is history we are living in. it was future, is now present, and in some years will be past, a past some will look back and say "yea, i lost my house a few years back...when obama and mccain were running for president" and others will say "the first year i got to exercise my right to vote was when obama and mccain were running for president". it just goes to show that life goes forward, your present becomes your past, and your future becomes your present. its almost comforting knowing that this moment has now come and gone, bringing with it highs and lows, and will the next moment do the same.

as for me, i will say "i lived in colombia back when obama and mccain were running for president." now thats just cool.