Why I Vote

by Sadia

In all seriousness. Voting does not mean you get what you want. Voting means you use a right many don’t have, fought for and died for around the world and in history. I am proud I voted. Maybe I got what I voted for. Maybe I did not. It does not mean others should be insulted or vice versa. It does not mean I am no longer friends or family as before. It does not mean that victory whether mine or not should be used to demean those lost. As I said to a friend in UK..” I would vote there, sometimes the party I voted for won, sometimes they lost. I got up next day and lived my best under them.”

We want better for Sierra Leone but I have seen those who should know better, demean others. Yet tomorrow you will post how Sierra Leoneans never come together or support each other. We never look in the mirror and see that we may be the Sierra Leoneans we are talking about.

Both parties campaigned on unity yet jubilation seems to have eradicated that thought. Our selfishness, individualism and downright meanness sometimes to each other never ceases to amaze me, not our politics.

I am proud I voted. That is all I wanted to do. It means I have a voice. To debate, disagree or support.

Goodnight.