A Weighty Resolution: Drop the Extra Baggage
Filed by: Waymon Hudson
January 3, 2009 5:30 PM
http://www.bilerico.com/2009/01/a_weighty_resolution_drop_the_extra_bagg.phpNo this isn't about yet another year of making a new year's resolution to drop all those extra holiday pounds (although I have done that again this year). As I was looking back at the past year, I realized I spent a large portion of it angry.
Now I'm sure every person involved in politics and activism has those times, the rough patches, that can threaten to burn them out. Sometimes the defeats pile up so high that you move from one hard fought battle to the next and lose sight of what you are fighting for.
And I have to wonder, by spending so much time deliriously angry, have I let the other side win, even just a little bit...
Now make no make mistake, there has been much to be angry over this past year. Horrendous hate crimes that shook many of us to our core. Having rights stripped away at the ballot box. Listening to our lives, families, and very existence be attacked and degraded. All these things really had a profound impact on my outlook this year.
