Happy New Year - 新春快乐！
Nov
5
At around 11:00AM, I have received a text message from a friend from Florida:
“Don’t forget to vote today, Obama!”
Five minutes later, another message came in and puzzled me at first:
“Free tal reg cofe 2day only at Starbucks.go!”
On my way back, I stopped at a local Starbucks Coffee shop and asked a lady at the counter, “is it true that you will get a free tall cup of coffee today?”
“Well, it is only true if you have voted! Have you voted?” she answered.
It is the first time, as I’ve come to know and would remember for many years since I have not been a regular voter, that amidst political campaign a franchise chain stepped in, grasping from a tiny small aspect of living, urged us all in an incentive way, to not to forget a citizen’s duty on this election day. Quite convincingly, it relinquished us a sense of distance so remote, between what we hear and what we do and put us again in touch with what we have; My heart goes to Obama! The first Black President of this Country. While during the day, when ballots are drawn, numbers are played, turnouts are news railed, and politics are vague and far, a free cup of coffee is there to remind us to vote is a message unlikely to ignore.
Now, I wonder how many MeiAnRen have voted. We understand that many of us can’t vote, yet many others can. From time to time, an event swept us aside from what we do, for there is no BV and no IBV, our own definition of regions became a fragile formation, and no career manual would outline what we should do on a election day; It is something that are likely seen by many of us as something else, passable, unrelated and won’t bringing rewards or benefit of residual. Many of us have likely skipped it, as we have with Memorial days and the Labors Day. We have our own world, a world of which the outside can hardly see through nor understand. We let them in only when they agree to a Xnd Look or a Show Plan. We want to see results; we need results and we are hungry for results. We want people to see our world our way, not any other ways. Consequently, every external event becomes a mirror with which we see our unique dissimilarities against the world at large. Am I posting a question?
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