So the votes have been counted and I didn’t get in. You’ve probably seen already, but it has been taking me a while to process all of what happened. Though I wasn’t expecting to be elected, I was still optimistic about my chances. More than 8,000 people ticked a box next to my name, which is very humbling. Unfortunately for me, about 10,000 ticked the box next to Phil Clearwater’s, and 11,500 next to Vicky Southworth’s. The best way I can describe the feeling is like being simultaneously dumped by thousands of people. The immediate response is to try and fix things, to go back a day or a week or a month so you could do one thing differently, convincing yourself that it would make all the difference. There is a powerlessness, and then a realisation; it’s not that they don’t like you, they just like other people more.
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So the votes have been counted and I didn’t get in. You’ve probably seen already, but it has been taking me a while to process all of what happened. Though I wasn’t expecting to be elected, I was still optimistic about my chances. More than 8,000 people ticked a box next to my name, which is very humbling. Unfortunately for me, about 10,000 ticked the box next to Phil Clearwater’s, and 11,500 next to Vicky Southworth’s. The best way I can describe the feeling is like being simultaneously dumped by thousands of people. The immediate response is to try and fix things, to go back a day or a week or a month so you could do one thing differently, convincing yourself that it would make all the difference. There is a powerlessness, and then a realisation; it’s not that they don’t like you, they just like other people more.