TIFU by not voting for my friend in an election
I (22m) have been participating in my uni’s martial arts society since October of last year, it’s been a huge part of my social life this year and I’ve enjoyed it massively. I in particular have made friends with someone from a lower year than me, who we shall call Cam (20m). We normally spar together and catch each other up on life stuff, and I always enjoy seeing him at the sessions.
We had elections for people who wanted to become executive members of the society recently (president, treasurer etc), and Cam was going for one of the positions. It was an open forum thing, so we could all vote for whoever we wanted for the position. Cam was one of two people going for this particular position, and so we all agreed to have a vote while Cam and the other candidates had their backs turned away for fairness. When we were asked to vote by raising our hands, almost nobody raised their hand for Cam, including me.
The other person won the role, and Cam took it on the chin. The thing is though, I was hyping him up throughout the session that day, and I had every intention of voting for him but I just didn’t put my hand up in time. I don’t actually know if I voted for the other person, I remember doing something with my arm but I don’t know if I put it up at all. This happened the other day and I still have got absolutely no clue why. I think it might’ve been a brain fart but at the worst possible time, or I was caught off guard by the fact that almost no one else voted for him and then bystander syndrome kicked in. I haven’t spoken to him or anyone else at the society about it since then, and I just feel so two-faced about it all. It’s not even that my vote would’ve changed anything because the other person won in a landslide, I just have no idea how or why I could’ve done this to him behind his back.
TL;DR: Had a brain fart during a vote and I didn’t end up voting for my friend during a uni society election despite meaning to