President Obama holds a special place in my heart. He was the first president that I ever voted for, and I was lucky enough to have the first black president be my first official vote for president. To be a part of and witnessing history is something that I think a lot of people take for granted, whether you liked him or not.

This isn't to say I've never had any gripes with President Obama. He has done some things I wish he wouldn't have, and not done some things I wish he would have. If you agree with someone more often than you don't I think that is a win for a presidency. You're never going to get everything you want, and sometimes you have to step outside of your bubble to make sure you're not just blindly following someone.

I'm not taking his flaws lightly either, NSA spying is still a huge issue he's yet to address in a significant way,we drone too many civilians in other countries, and Flint, Michigan still doesn't have water, but overall I am going to miss President Obama in office.

While I do love having someone I share the same philosophy as and someone on my "team" in the White House, a lot of what I'll miss has nothing to do with policy.

I've heard commentators speak about this election that it was a "referendum on decency." I couldn't agree more. The 2016 campaign was unlike any other and was extremely nasty. Whatever your feelings are about Donald Trump and if you voted for him or not, Donald Trump is a different guy than Barack Obama.

Barack Obama isn't out there tweeting about a satire/comedy sketch about him. Barack Obama doesn't break diplomatic protocol. Barack Obama is calm, cool, and collected. You can name any problem, the recession, terrorism-he always got up to the podium and told us loud and proud we're America, we won't bend or break, and I got this. He had a great way of being real about the issues while simultaneously saying don't worry, we'll be ok.

Maybe you like Donald Trump's aggressiveness, tweets, and his bombastic ways of calling people out and you didn't like the way Barack Obama handled things. Perfectly okay to have that opinion, I just, for one, disagree.

I'm going to miss Barack Obama on TV speaking softly and carrying a big stick. Having his renditions of we have nothing to fear but fear itself. Letting everyone know that there are bad things in the world, but we're going to handle it like generations before have. So, to the first President that I ever gave my vote to, thank you for all you've done. I'm going to miss ya.