I am afraid of the election outcome in November.

It doesn’t help that Sun City Center is overwhelmingly supportive of the candidate I feel is destroying this country. All over town you see yard signs for him. I fear that there may be too many to allow for the change I feel we need.

But then I think about how memories and feelings work. I’m hoping that maybe things will turn out ok after all.

My reasoning:

If you go through a lovely period or event in your life, the component parts (smells, sounds, etc.) stay with you. For me, when I smell Juicy Fruit gum or hear a particular melody, I’m taken back to a period in my past. If it’s a good period, it brings pleasure. If it was a bad time, the subsequent feelings stay with those reminders.

This year has been lousy for everyone. Won’t we all always associate the things that made up this year with the negative life we’ve lead? If it works that way, our current administration is part of that negativity and his election will fail. There will be change.