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at hand, and making the most reasonable plans i can.
so here it is the morning after and the person i did not vote for, is now the POTUS, lovely turn of events. the good news, at least for me, is that unlike BREXIT, this could all be over in four years. the bad news? i will have to deal with someone i consider to be fa foul-mouth asshole, misogynist, bigot for four years and help resist the most heinous notions that he tries to champions as he learns what little power he has over the rank and file. am i breaking out my copy of Rosetta Stone and looking for a villa in Mexico? not yet, but i may end up on the other side of the mythical wall.
what i did not do, is lose sleep over wondering what i would do if the Donald won. i consider my options and make my plans accordingly, as he has far from a mandate or even a very friendly Congress. yes the lesson to those in power, stop gaming the system, return to grassroots organizations and walk away from the big money.
what does life under this new prez look like for me? well among my plans is to become more politically active, as i feel those who share a similar political outlook sat on the sidelines believing this outcome was never going to happen, despite the last minutes injection of the FBI, with nothing but more smoke and mirrors. plenty of blame will be dished out over the coming months and my hope is that we see how constrained a less than popular president really is or is not.
what does this have to do with making plans? well IF i had planned my life, based on what i thought was going to be the outcome of this election, i would be in quite a frenzy now. while i am not sure what the fallout is going to be, i am certain that if i suit up and show up, my life will go on, fairly unchanged from what it looked like yesterday. i am still clean today, and just as i was disappointed that Al Gore could not win, whether or not that election was stolen, the fact is: i am not going to use over whoever the fVck gets elected president. i still have a job, bills, a mortgage and my health, so life goes on. i am still planning two vacations in the next six months. i am still planning for my retirement one day. i still have HOPE that i can carry the message of recovery to the populations i currently am serving and most importantly i have FAITH, that my recovery program will sustain me, even if martial law gets declared on December 18, 2016, i am fairly certain that for the most part, my life will remain basically unchanged. i can make plans with confidence for a future that includes, vacations, career opportunities, comfortable shelter, enough to eat and the opportunity to continue down the path of becoming a person i never thought i could be. ironically, when i started this recovery journey my character was not that much different from the president-elect's character. i was not as vocal about my beliefs, but if i had billions of dollars and the insulation of sycophants and hangers-on, who knows. today, i am grateful that i CHOOSE to be more than what i was. today i PLAN to continue that journey, until i go to bed tonight and i have the HOPE that tomorrow i will wake-up again and the FAITH that i can make the same decision i made this morning, to admit i am an addict ask for the power to stay clean and surrender my will and my life into the care of the POWER that fuels my recovery. everything else? well i will adjust my plans according to what happens today and as the law suits and recounts get rolling, i will now do my best to let that shite roll off my back, after all, i have already exercised all my power in this situation.

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