Kaitlynne-Rae Landry's Blog

Today I went to my first political-ish event since the end of my contract as a Page. My contract ended over a month ago. It's not as if there weren’t ample opportunities before this, heck, here in Ottawa, there are more political events then I really want to think about. They are everywhere. I just wasn’t in the mood for it. It’s a kind of weird experiment, going from super active and involved to stopping dead for a year. I spent a year second guessing the majority of my decisions to make sure that I didn’t cross any lines and put myself at risk. I got in the habit of doing so, and it’s a hard habit to break.
Before my term I would have considered myself to be passionately involved. I scorned those among my peers that weren’t informed on the latest current events and who didn’t stay up to date with politics. I gave them a hard time if they didn’t vote, even in student elections. But I get it now, its easy to stop being passionate about politics. It’s even easy to stop paying attention all together.

I still read newspapers, well, online news sites, daily. I’m still informed. I still know who I’d vote for in the next election, and I’ll still go and vote. Yet, I feel that the passion I once held for politics has dissipated a little. I have become a little more like the statistical young adult: turned off to the realm of policy and decision makers who shape the future of our country.

This is a change for me. I have become part of the statistic I founded a not for profit organization to help. So I guess it’s time I follow my own advice. I’ve decided I’m going to go and get passionate about current affairs again. I’m going to find an event or issue, a cause or reason, and get started with one, in the hopes that it will snowball me back to where I used to be. Join me?