Right or Left

I find myself stressed over this choice, am I left wing, or am I right wing. Am I liberal or conservative? Why do I have to be either? What if I like some ideologies from both sides? What does that make me? I believe that voting is so important, maybe its because I am a woman and I am a woman of color, or maybe its because I see the amount of value voting has, or perhaps it is both. I also believe that many people do not feel this way and those reasons I could not tell you. But what I do know is that choosing is hard, defining yourself as left wing or right wing, liberal or conservative is hard and that it gets in the way of why we’re voting. We vote to choose who will be running our town, city, province, state, and country. We are not voting to choose sides. I wish we could just take the hostility out of being one or the other, and only voted who we felt would do the best for us as a collective society. I personally get very stressed when I talk about politics and have an intense inner dilemma because of the way each side is spoken about, and because I don’t know what wing I identify as and feel pressured to choose one. I find when I agree with the right wing the left wing part of me struggles and vice versa. Where is this pressure coming from I ask? Not my family, not my friends, but from the media and society. So instead of challenging myself to choose, I will challenge myself not to and to feel comfortable with not knowing. I will confront myself to do as I say and vote who I believe will do the best for us.