For weeks I've walked around campus seeing various flyers for the candidates running for positions in student government. President, Vice President, Representative, Andrew, Nathaniel, Catherine, etc... Eventually the names run all together right? Until they come to life...
"Hi, my name is _______." I look up into a talking poster. Ok not really, but a face that has been plastered across the walls recently was now standing in front of me, talking. The conversation was short, but he seemed a nice enough guy. I invited him to a student organization meeting a few days later and he said he'd come but I seriously doubted it. I mean elections are a week away, of course he had to say he'd come right?
But he did! We ended up talking for an hour after the meeting ended and I kept thinking, "Wow he really is a nice guy." But that is when reality hit... I was totally being campaigned.
Elections were in less than a week at that time, and I was involved in a department he had never touched really before with campaigning. My "duh" moment of why he was being so nice really was revolutionary. I left shortly thereafter, saying I had voice lessons (dismissing the fact they didn't start for another half hour) and breathed a sigh of relief.
But that's what politicians are supposed to do right? Like everybody, smile a lot, have everybody like them so you can get their votes. I don't have a problem with that, I really don't. So I proceeded the friendship with that in mind.
So Eeections have come and gone (he won) and though the email messages have slowed down, they're still there. I don't think he's flirting or interested (there's an eight-year age difference between us and vastly different belief systems as far as I can tell) but it made me start to think, how in the world can you tell if someone who is a politician or has a politician like personality is really interested in you or just "doing their job?" They HAVE to like everybody, so when do you know when it's different with you? Have you ever been in this situation (in either position?) What did you do and how did it turn out?
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You can't tell. Not with anyone, much less a politician. Nothing is for certain, and that's what I know from my years of life so far. Only time can tell, and even then, people change, right? :)