For as long as I have been on Xomba and on the Internet, my interest has been in politics. My first experiences in political debate took place during the 2000 presidential campaign and gained momentum after 9/11, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Even here on Xomba, I've been involved in some knock-down drag-out fights over 9/11, Iraq, South Ossetia, all culminating in the 2008 presidential election.

I'm done.

For some time now, a quiet storm has been building in my soul. This storm has its source in the Universe and the Law of Attraction, which I know is my past, present, and future. Where I want to go in my life is somewhere far more important than armchair quarterbacking politics. The fact of the matter is, while I found myself giving into the temptation to join the fight, I would lose myself in the fight and end up not liking what the negative energy would create for me.

I wrote an article recently about how I unsubscribed to several different e-mail lists and sources. I didn't add that I had over 10,000 e-mails downloaded and stored on my hard drive, in addition to the hundreds I received every week in my inbox. I took the step of faith two nights ago by deleting every single e-mail from my files that had to do with politics or "fighting" the power.

There are two circles in our lives: Circle of Concern and Circle of Influence. While the circle of concern is much larger because it encompasses everything our senses notice, our circle of influence is the more important because it only encompasses those things that we can change ourselves. Politics is one of those things that falls under the circle of concern for most people, myself included.

What a difference those steps made to my mental energy level. I am no longer energetically bogged down in the day-to-day over-wrought emotional morass that has become political debate. What I do now is focus on what I CAN change, which is "me" and how I look at different situations. I give positive energy toward the Greater Good of humanity without taking sides because I have come to understand that the only way to improve the world is for each of us individually to improve our own lives. If everybody just focused on being 100% true to himself or herself, then imagine how much better the world could be!

That's why I've been able to just walk away from politics without any regret. I know that what I am doing will make a bigger difference in the world.