Highschool. It will be the best four years of your life. You make lasting friendships and discover who you truly are. You will find your niche. Yet, looking back on my Sophomore and Junior years, I lack memories of Friday night lights followed by going to the newest movies with friends. Instead, the absence of a normal high school experience is replaced by reminiscing on phone calls to strangers in all fifty states to share my passions. I can reflect on late night rallies of thousands of people gathered around to hear one man speak his mind. I flashback to weekends that consist of knocking on doors all day across my city. I transformed from a shy introvert and blossomed into an extrovert who thrived around people. To this, I owe the biggest change of my life to one man and that man only, Vermont Senator, Bernie Sanders.
Just a shy Planned Parenthood volunteer at the time, I got wind of the campaign at fifteen years old. Politics and surrounding topics had never struck any nerve of interest previously, but this was the first election season I had been old enough to comprehend the political atmosphere and nature of the game. Young and slightly curious, research about the candidates was completely necessary - So many new names with …show more content…
Saturdays and Sundays implied I would be canvassing the neighborhoods of Spokane, going door to door. And twice in these years, the man whom I owed this all to came to my town, to talk to us. Thousands of people gathered to see the senator, waiting hours and hours just to hear one man tell them he heard them, he was listening. Walking back and forth talking to a line of fourteen thousand people in the hot sun for hours on end, all for one unified purpose? That's a campaign to remember. That is the campaign I was proud to be a part
Just a shy Planned Parenthood volunteer at the time, I got wind of the campaign at fifteen years old. Politics and surrounding topics had never struck any nerve of interest previously, but this was the first election season I had been old enough to comprehend the political atmosphere and nature of the game. Young and slightly curious, research about the candidates was completely necessary - So many new names with …show more content…
Saturdays and Sundays implied I would be canvassing the neighborhoods of Spokane, going door to door. And twice in these years, the man whom I owed this all to came to my town, to talk to us. Thousands of people gathered to see the senator, waiting hours and hours just to hear one man tell them he heard them, he was listening. Walking back and forth talking to a line of fourteen thousand people in the hot sun for hours on end, all for one unified purpose? That's a campaign to remember. That is the campaign I was proud to be a part