[ESP/ENG] Reto 30 Días de Agradecimiento: #15 Por poder comer | 30 Days Gratitude Challenge: #15 For being able to eat

Algo que me caracteriza es comer mucho, aunque no lo parezca por mi contextura. Desde muy joven siempre he comido mucho, iba a McDonald's, Arturo's, Papa Johns, etc. Comía mucha comida chatarra y también comida sana, realmente disfrutaba abarrotarme de comida. Algo que aunque sabiendo que mucha gente en el mundo le cuesta conseguir la comida o simplemente no pueden tenerla, no lo agradecía, nunca tomé en cuenta que tener comida es algo muy difícil para demasiadas personas, más de las que uno cree. Creo que mucha gente de Venezuela me entenderá en lo que estoy diciendo.

No contaba con que la situación en Venezuela se iba a poner cada vez peor. Comenzaba a escasear la comida, incluso hubo una época en la que McDonald's ofrecía yuca frita porque no podía costear papas. En esas épocas ninguno en mi casa, incluyéndome, tenía trabajo, por lo que costear la comida era una misión casi imposible. Hubo épocas en las que solo comía dos veces al día unos pequeños platos de lentejas con sal. Hacíamos arepas con ñame porque no había harina, endulzábamos las cosas con papelón y así.

Una vez me desmayé en un autobús yendo a la universidad porque no había cenado y no había desayunado (siempre desayuno llegando a la universidad). En ese punto me quebré, ya que nunca había entendido lo que era pasar hambre y hasta bajé 3 kilos (lo cual es mucho debido a mi contextura). En mi casa llegamos al punto de comer cantidades muy pequeñas dos veces al día, estábamos muy deprimidos, solo queríamos que esa mala etapa terminara. Sin embargo, no todo es malo.

Something that characterizes me is to eat a lot, although it doesn't seem so because of my build. Since I was very young I have always eaten a lot, I used to go to McDonald's, Arturo's, Papa Johns, etc. I ate a lot of junk food and also healthy food, I really enjoyed stuffing myself with food. Something that even though I knew that many people in the world have a hard time getting food or simply can't have it, I didn't appreciate it, I never took into account that having food is something very difficult for too many people, more than you think. I think many people in Venezuela will understand me in what I am saying.

I did not count on the fact that the situation in Venezuela was going to get worse and worse. Food was becoming scarce, there was even a time when McDonald's offered fried yucca because it could not afford potatoes. At that time none of the people in my house, including me, had jobs, so paying for food was an almost impossible mission. There were times when I only ate a few small plates of lentils with salt twice a day. We made arepas with yams because there was no flour, we sweetened things with paper and so on.

Once I passed out on a bus going to college because I hadn't had dinner and breakfast (I always have breakfast coming to college). At that point I broke down because I had never understood what it was like to be hungry and I even lost 10 pounds (which is a lot because of my build). In my house we got to the point of eating very small amounts twice a day, we were very depressed, we just wanted that bad stage to end. However, not everything is bad.