Hello!
So, as some of you know, I’m from Germany and tomorrow is election day. The feeling I have today is comparable to the dread I feel when I have to plan an event, where everything has to go to plan. It starts with ridiculous what-if-spiralling about different scenarios that would lead to preventing me from voting and goes up to feeling as if the weight of a nation was on my shoulders. This election is generally seen as a defining point of modern German politics and the global step to the right we’re currently witnessing is threatening to shove us into a very wrong direction. The party that worries me is already being observed by the agency for protection of the constitution, so I didn’t just come up with those fears. It has gained many voters over the years and I now feel as if it is up to me alone to change the course of politics, even though the best thing I can do right now is to just go on and vote for a democratic party.
Does anyone else sometimes feel responsible for things that are rationally far too big for one person to carry? I know it’s ridiculous, but it is weighing me down so much right now with everything happening in the world and my own personal stuff going on.
