Today was different. I don't know, call it my renewed sense of hope in humanity, my excitement that what i may have thought was impossible occurred (impossible being that which i feel would make our lives better), a feeling of togetherness with my community as an entire café broke out in applause and cheers when Obama won Ohio—but something was just a little different. Maybe it's like one of those moments where you've never met anyone from Idaho or Wyoming before and then you meet someone who is from there and then suddenly it seems everyone you bump into has a connection to there. Or maybe it's what non-cynical people see every day of their lives—people who have seen the impossible happen and no matter how long ago it was, still hold out that positive hope for the future.
Today, the guy muttering to himself/at large was muttering about how even if John McCain had given Barack Obama 100pts, he STILL would have won the presidency. What? Was he watching the polls? Did he vote? He CARES?? Then, 2 young men struck up a conversation about how they can't believe it happened and happened the WAY it did. 2 young men, talking politics, expressing disbelief and hope...it made me turn down my iPod and try to listen in more to what they had to say. But then I was actually bothered that they weren't speaking loud enough for me to hear them. For a bus where people sometimes have conversations OVER your head from the back of the bus to the front, this, too, was a rare occurrence.
I'm wondering what the ride home will be like when everyone is more awake and the reality of the situation has settled in.
