Being Venezuelan

Being Venezuelan

Hello friends of this community of reflections, today I come with a reflective piece on the current situation in my country, Venezuela, and everything we have felt with this situation that is still unfolding.

Being Venezuelan at this moment is a mixture of many things, both on a personal level and on a social and even global level, where social networks and the media are making visible a situation that we have been living for many years.

It is seen as an achievement that Nicolás Maduro has been caught (which it is, in fact), but deep down, as a society, we know that this represents a big step on a long road that we still have to travel, both socially and personally.

Because it has been more than 20 years in this process that has generated many powerful changes, both socially and politically, resulting in everything that the world knows today.

What happened yesterday in Venezuela should have been celebrated with great euphoria, hope and freedom, but instead there was silence and a tense calm in the streets of Venezuela, because we are not yet completely free, as there is still a lot of fear and uncertainty among us.

So many things are being said that I have decided to listen to myself more and draw my own conclusions.

"I know that this is only the beginning and that there is still a long way to go, but we are no longer where we started."

There is still fear, but there is also a lot of hope after all, because I left Venezuela and lived abroad for five years as a result of this, and I know how difficult it is to be alone and without your family.

But now, in this situation that is still developing, it continues to be a strange feeling where many emotions are mixed together, and all that remains is to let this process that we all desire take shape, which is the freedom of Venezuela.

I would like to clarify that I do not and will never support violence, but that is how things turned out.

Collectively, we Venezuelans had to learn to be resilient and create our own philosophy of life because, after all, we learned to live in the present, where daily life has taught us not to have so many expectations but to let life surprise us as it surprised us yesterday.

Let us hope, based on the facts, that this will soon come to an end and that my country will once again become what it has always been: a Caribbean paradise.

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