So long to the headstrong

It’s terrifying – and incredible – that the world is holding its collective breath for about 130 million people to decide on the fate of the free world in the next few hours.

Perhaps The Sunday Times’ Andrew Sullivan put it best in his closing paragraph of his feature on the potential of the world’s most powerful country:

We are indeed on the verge of something that seems even more incredible the closer it gets, something more than a mere election. This is America, after all. It is a place that has seen great cruelty and hardship in its time. But it is also a place that yearns to believe naively in mornings rather than evenings, that cherishes dawns over dusks, that is not embarrassed by its own sense of destiny. In this unlikely mixed-race figure of Barack Obama, we will for a brief moment perhaps see a nation re-imagined and a world of possibilities open up. For a brief moment at least.

It’s 3AM now. I’m staying up to see if the world is about to change.

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