The “Why?”

Why, is the question that keeps popping up early and often when I started. Ironically, it wasn’t something I have thought much about, I just knew I could.  Maybe I had already answered that to myself when I had the idea a year or so before. Maybe because I like to challenge myself. I do love a good challenge.  I didn’t feel I challenged myself enough in my earlier life and I guess I’ve been making up for these past years. Maybe because why not.  I appreciate that our lives are super short and insignificant in the grandness of time, so why not try something you want to try, do something other won’t, just why the hell not. Maybe I am a bit crazy like many people told me when I let them know I was running. I think a little crazy is a good thing, without it we get bored. Maybe it's all of those reasons, but I think what it is was something more.

Ultimately, it really was the fact that I was tired of complaining, of being frustrated that I could do anything about issues that bothered me. I knew my voice wasn’t making an impact just sitting around bitching with friends and I didn’t feel it was making an impact with my vote (when I could), so where could my voice have some affect, local government, the last bastion of government “of the people, by the people, and for the people”, to quote old Honest Abe. So here I am running for a top local office and proud of it. I am standing up and taking action, making my voice heard to help my home.  I can’t fix many of the things my buddies and I complained about, but I can start somewhere, fix what I can and maybe inspire others to quit sitting and bitching, to get up and do something and let their voices be heard.