Regarding the upcoming elections: a short thing.

I’ve been hearing a lot of Obama-bashing from folks in person, and incomprehensible heaps of Romney-bashing from Tumblr.  It’s stressing me out, literally to the point of tears on more than one occasion.  I don’t know for sure yet how I’m going to vote.  I’m really, really torn.  I’m praying about it a lot.  It’s a very complicated decision for me, and I respect that it isn’t like that for everyone.

But I do wish that people would, in return, respect my desire to make an informed decision—a decision that I can be okay with because it was one I worked hard to make to the best of my ability, not because I was guilted into it. 

I’ve never done this before, and it scares me, frankly.  Even though I’m only one of two hundred million registered voters.  I know the fate of out nation doesn’t all hinge on my vote or something overly dramatic like that.  But it’s still important, because this is a part of me and it is a thing I’m doing, and I really don’t want to look back and regret it someday.  

So please, if you don’t have anything remotely encouraging to say to me over the next three days, don’t say it at all.

Thank you.