On the eve of November 6,
2008, four years ago, my life was quite different than it is now.
As the nation weighed in
on deciding its next leader of the free world, I sat in a small room at my
church teaching a small group of 11 year old scouts how to tie knots. I was getting annoyed at one little boy in
particular for not paying attention because he felt “I should be at home
watching election coverage so that I can say I saw McCain get elected”.
Just prior to that, I had
made a few decisions of my own that changed the course of the next few years to
me. I had decided that I had enough of
going to UCA and college in general and decided to re-enroll in BYU Idaho and
luckily was able to get admitted for the following semester instead of having
to wait till the summer like the track I was previously on.
In November of 2008 I was
taking 3 or 4 classes at UCA, one of which from my Dad and things were pretty
ok with the world at the moment. I was
catching up with a few old friends who were still out in Idaho that I felt
better about going up there with friends waiting for me. T3 was still really in its infancy with four
shows under its belt, a big Juanita’s gig on the way, and a full album being
recorded. I was also finishing up a second season of an afternoon radio show
that was awful, but made me laugh.
There was no twitter or a
timeline on Facebook. I’m not even sure
the news feed existed yet either. I had 2 more years of college to go. The most
expensive thing I had purchased was my own computer
I had a lot of very political
friends on my Facebook and at the time there was no option to ‘unfollow ’ their
updates so it was either deal with them or stay off Facebook. I didn't even stay up to watch the results
and I had never even met most of the people currently in my life at that point. My life as a whole was about to change very drastically over the next 6-8 months as well due to many choices I made. Life is pretty much just that, a series of choices and consequences of those choices whether they be good or bad.
A lot can change in four
years. It’s funny that I really don’t
think much on a national or global scale, but on a personal world view. Maybe that makes me selfish, but doesn't everybody do that anyway?
