Three Things I Know Right Now

I am writing to you from the airport, waiting to board a flight home. My phone is buzzing with so many incoming messages that I can’t even use it normally, lest I hit one of the incoming messages inadvertently. 

By far, the most common sentiments I am seeing are fear and anxiety. It doesn’t even matter who you’re intending to vote for in November, this is still a time of significant apprehension. 

Here are three things I know:
1. Apprehension is normal. It does not mean the world is falling apart. Do you know what the framers of the Constitution had in spades? Apprehension. They had many conversations amongst themselves about whether or not their experiment would even work out. Hamilton, for example, feared that democracy would fail and America would fall into anarchy and despotism. 

Apprehension is the normal human response to experiencing something new and unknown, especially if they perceive the stakes are high. You’re not doing life wrong if this is how you feel.