Let’s face it. We all want to matter in our lives, and the mattering takes many forms. Most of us want to matter to our families – helping them with problems when we can, showing them what we’ve learned during our lives and what they might take from those experiences.
Some of us also want to go bigger with our mattering and help our communities or our favorite organizations solve their problems and become or stay successful.
Still others want to seek our support at the polls, so they can do things that matter to all of us – helping us buy or keep our homes and afford food, gas and health insurance.
That last bit of mattering is what I’m talking about here. None of those candidates is going to have a chance for widespread mattering if we don’t elect them – and to do that we need to vote. Right now, we’re being deluged on our screens by ads that vilify one candidate and proclaim the wonders of another – then vice versa the next minute.
We owe it to ourselves and our families to weed through those claims and decide which ones are truthful and which are pure hogwash (this is a publication for all readers). But that’s just the first part of the process, because then we have to vote. And if we don’t vote, the rest of our due diligence won’t matter, and we won’t have any basis for complaining about someone else’s choice.
So please, even if you won’t be able to come see us in person on Tuesday, Nov. 3, you’ve still got time to get and cast your absentee ballot. It may take a bit more work and require planning ahead, but the effort will matter greatly. You’ll feel like you’ve mattered to everyone you care about, and the outcome will matter to all of us.