Which, in turn, would leave her state senate seat vacant, opening up the possibility that Barack could run for it. Was he interested? Would he run? I couldn’t have known it then, but these questions would come to dominate the next decade of our lives, pulsing like a drumbeat behind almost everything we did. Would he? Could he? Was he? Should he? But ahead of these always came another question, posed by Barack himself, preliminary and supposedly preemptive when it came to running for office of any sort. The first time he asked it was on the day he’d let me know about Alice Palmer and her open seat and this notion he had that maybe he could be not just a lawyer/professor/organizer/author but all those things plus a state legislator as well: “What do you think about it, Miche?” For me, the answer was never actually all that tough to come up with. I didn’t think it was a great idea for Barack to run for office. My specific reasoning might have varied slightly each time the question came back around, but my larger stance would hold, like a sequoia rooted in the ground, though clearly you can see that it stopped absolutely nothing.
I love the humor in these lines. Obama having been the president of America for eight years, Miche's dissuasion turned out in vain. Although she had some clear aversion of letting her husband to run for some spots in government, her husband circuitously obeyed his own wish in the end. The irony in this is not acrimonious or regretful, but rather quite lovely and fateful.
We all have our own perspectives towards life, with some living mainly for happiness, some living for a meaning, and some just live for living, and still there are other purposes guiding some people's life. Therefore, we need to be open to diverse and even divergent view on certain things. Being unanimous is good, but being different is also an alternative virtue.
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