How to handle pre-election anxiety

Amy Sea
2 min readNov 2, 2020

I use this quote a lot.

Michelle Obama: “Being president,” she said, “doesn’t change who you are, it reveals who you are."

Okay, now insert “Waiting for the election results…”

“Waiting for the election results… doesn’t change who you are, it reveals who you are.”

Some people can’t sleep.

Some people have planted themselves on their kitchen floor and are eating pudding out of an 8"10" sheet cake pan.

Some people are shopping for themselves and for everyone they know for the next ten years of holidays.

Some people are making lists. Very long lists.

Some people are very drunk.

Some people are preparing to get very drunk.

Some people are setting up their edibles neatly on a tray that appears similar to one their grandmother would have served open-faced sandwiches on.

Some people are yelling at their partners.

Most people are yelling at their partners.

If people are not yelling at their partners, they can tell you exactly, down to the last detail, what they’ve never really liked about their partners. It’s as if God dropped a relationship microscope onto their doorstep and they can see…

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Amy Sea

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