I DO NOT VOTE, Before You Judge, Let Me Explain Why I Don't Care HowYou Feel About It.

There's something that I want to share with you all. As we all the know the time for voting has arrived. The fact that I DO NOT VOTE, gets me a lot of frowns, and criticism from friends, family and people whom I encountered in my everyday life. The fact that I do value SOME of you all opinions, I'm going to take the time out to express to everybody why I DO NOT VOTE.

So, there's a reason why I waited to after the polls open to share this with you all. Consider this my disclaimer; *This is BY NO MEANS an effort to change anybody's opinion, or judge anybody for exercising there right to vote.*

Back to the subject matter at hand; There's a couple reason why I DO NOT VOTE, one is my own reasoning and another I kind got help not coming up with, but just a validation to what I already felt, and knew to be true. 

First, my reasoning for not voting come strictly from my belief system, which tells me this; The world was only built to last a certain amount of time, although nobody knows what that time frame is, look around and you'll see that the time is running out! Secondly, with the help of one of my favorite authors Brenè Brown I read something in a book of hers titled Daring Greatly. It's part of a section titled Disengagement Divide, and it highlights politics being a prime example. I'll just share the part in which relates to this; 

-Here’s my theory: Disengagement is the issue underlying the majority of problems I see in families, schools, communities, and organizations and it takes many forms, including the ones we discussed in the “Armory” chapter. We disengage to protect ourselves from vulnerability, shame, and feeling lost and without purpose. We also disengage when we feel like the people who are leading us—our boss, our teachers, our principal, our clergy, our parents, our politicians—aren’t living up to their end of the social contract. Politics is a great, albeit painful, example of social contract disengagement . Politicians on both sides of the aisle are making laws that they’re not required to follow or that don’t affect them, they’re engaging in behaviors that would result in most of us getting fired, divorced, or arrested. They’re espousing values that are rarely displayed in their behavior. And just watching them shame and blame each other is degrading for us. They’re not living up to their side of the social contract and voter turnout statistics show that we’re disengaging.-

That small passage written by Brenè Brown validates, in a much more smarter way then I could, basically how i feel about the American government and is the root to which my first point originates from. So to all my weed smoking peers and family members who smoke weed, no I WILL NOT be VOTING to legalize it, that's like me voting for Barack Obama just cause he's half black...... Ooops, did I just give up the only means behind y'all voting for him!?!? I'm so NOT sorry.