Did I miss something?

Was I covering too many athletic competitions, playing too much Mario Party Jamboree, eating too much bad for me food, or at city council meetings so long I failed to take in an event?

I’m talking about the presidential election on November 5.

For months, maybe years, this election has dominated media coverage, dinner table conversations, bar stools followed by the adjoined jail cells after a fight ensued, council gatherings (local, state, and federal), and anywhere else people talk and listen.

Who should win Joe Biden or Donald Trump?

The debate happens and Biden’s healthy and dependability are questioned. He’s replaced by Kamala Harris as the Democratic selection for the presidential election.

Trump and Harris have a debate.

Harris questioned Trump’s run as president (2017-2021) where he became the first president to be impeached twice and his values as he is awaiting sentencing on a felony conviction.

Trump pointed out the positives of his presidency and put an interrogation lamp on Harris’ last four years as the vice president of the country.

There wasn’t a radio station, TV network, newspaper, podcast, or comic strip not focused on the election as it was viewed as a life changing moment for the livelihoods of everyone in the United State of America’s borders.

Then it happened.

Facebook, which would be the third largest country in the world if it was a country, featured millions of photos with people smiling about or pointing at their sticker they received for voting.

A few people were happy with the result of Trump being president, again, and a few people were sad Harris didn’t win.

Then life went back to normal where we knit pick every moving molecule in the world’s existence without much thought or further reaction to the election.

This big, cultivating, country moving significant event…seems like it meant nothing.

Yes, it has only been a week.

Yes, Trump isn’t officially in office until January.

Yes, it will take time for Trump and the all-Republican government to write bills and laws.

But why does it feel like the election never happened?

Was the hype or the attention to it, just that, hype and attention.

Do we not think anything is going to be different, good or bad, now that the election is over?

Are we treating it like most other aspects of life and once it happens, it’s over, and we move to the next mission, buying a Taylor Swift concert ticket for an insane amount of money?

Are we glossing over the election like Sephora does lips?

Or are we simply waiting?

Some for the positive.

Some for the negative.

All to see what happens economically, commercially, and culturally.

Maybe we’re just scared to talk about it now because it has happened. There is nothing we can do about it. The votes were placed, they were counted, and the winner was announced.

What do you do?

Surprisingly, we’re not doing what we usually do the most, complaining or stating an opinion.

Maybe I’m in the wrong circles or don’t tune into the right feed where all of the election gossip and banter is happening.

But if you ask me, if this country is going to be changed so much from one election, why isn’t it dominating life as we know it similar to how it did before it even took place on November 5?