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RE: Dream Chaser (a 5o-Word Story for @jayna)
Another great entry from @hlezama. 🙂
I really liked the parallel between life and the game. We really need some protection when playing the big game, right? And we usually feel protected by those who cared the most about us, parents and grandparents.
Sorry to hear about your wife's family troubles. It is very unfair what happens in Venezuela. I sincerely hope things will get better.
Thanks, @roxy-cat. I really appreciate it. Life here has become a crazy video game, some sort of maize. Unlike in the video games, though, we don't have extra lives.
I saw some news about the situation overthere. It is so sad. The reporter was showing what is happening in the Venezuelan hospitals. If you don't bring your own medicines, you are left to die? The doctors were working pro bono and they felt so helpless.
And so many good people forced to leave their homes.
Why can't we just restart the bloody game and adopt a different strategy? 😞
That's the million-dollar question. We know of a pediatrician (my wife was his son's teacher) who killed himself because he got too depressed seeing kids die every day before his powerless eyes. The bolivarian revolution is a disgrace, it's run by a bunch of psychos. They take pleasure of people's suffering and they go to the UN and say with a clean face that there's not such a crisis and that we don't need help.
And the international community is still debating what to do, for christ's sake.
The international community? What "community"? A bunch of well paid individuals who ha e no idea on what is happening. Or they do not really care if there's nothing for them.
I'm not a fan of going out and do your own justice but in your country's case I don't see other options.
You are right.
Those who still stay are way too demoralized, demotivated and concerned about immediate things. The government controls everything and that makes it very difficult for anyone to organize anything. Imagine that we are getting to a point where you can't even joke about the government. There are two firefighters being prosecuted now for "instigating hatred". Their crime: to make a video joking about the president being an ass/donkey. They face 16 years in prison.
Now, they will have to put in jail some 10 million people, including kids. We all think, with enough evidence, that he is an ass.
Maybe this is the solution: invading other countries. Since their financial stability is threatened, they might react somehow.
I know what you are saying about putting people in jail for joking. We had the same troubles during the comunist period. An innocent joke about the "beloved" leader could put you in jail for years. Some have even disappeared.
I don't know what can be done to stop this abuse. Maybe if I had the solution, I would have been somewhere else being able to help.
I still believe that people should find some motivation and act. What will they do? Imprison the entire population? Being united is the key.
I really hope something will happen soon and things will get better. It has to as so much suffering is not fair.