As I sat in Green Bay drinking my imported liberal Madison beer and watching the crowd gather in Grant Park to celebrate Obama's victory, the only thing I could think to myself is: I should be there.
My next thought was: Why am I not there?
I said by November 1st I would be in Chicago. But fear of not finding a job and/or not finding myself in the city has kept me in the relative comfort of Green Bay, where i have the ease of a part time job and a reliable old self imagine to fall back on.
But hearing Obama's speech and seeing the people of Chicago made me realize you don't accomplish greatness by staying static. Change, the pesky slogan toted around from 2 years, seems to be the only way to really discover who you are and who you are meant to be.
As Obama says:"For that is the true genius of America -- that America can change. Our union can be perfected. And what we have already achieved gives us hope for what we can and must achieve tomorrow."
The genius of life is the ability to adapt, to take what we have accomplished and add to its beauty,to stretch for that illusive perfection. And that does not happen by sitting in green bay waiting for winter to freeze you in.
Sometimes it takes the first black man becoming president of the United States of America to realize that you too can make change, you too can change - even if Wolf Blitzer doesn't cover it for 24 hours straight on CNN.
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