FRIENDS STEEMIT, I TRUST THIS PLATFORM ....
Christmas is coming and it is a sign of family unity. In my country this time is used to reconnect with relatives who are far away. It is a sign of forgiveness, apologies, family union, hugs, kisses, laughter, dancing, singing, music, joy and happiness.
The Christmas dinner and the end of the year dinner are prepared. All together we eat and celebrate on December 24: the birth of the child Jesus and the 31st we celebrate the arrival of the new year.
We are in a difficult time, my country suffers an economic blockade that has made us live a crisis never imagined by us.
Despite all this bad situation we continue to live, never before, we assume this situation in our lives as an unprecedented fact which must be overcome.
And in that idea of overcoming we try to lead life as best as possible. Now our lives are based specifically on the search for food, because being an underdeveloped country we depend on buying almost everything we consume in other countries. The economic blockade imposed by other countries is infamous and unforgivable.
We learned that people for the rulers of those countries do not matter, they only care about the personal interest of obtaining more wealth. The riches that our country has.
We Venezuelans depend on oil, we are an oil country and we have not known how to use oil to be developed. There are many reasons that do not prevent them and that would be another story.
My children study in the university in choir, falcon state, about 800 km from our house located in Sucre state. My children, for the first time in our lives will not be able to come home, we will spend Christmas separately. We do not have enough resources to cover the exorbitant price of the ticket for the trip. Because of the great distance between these two points, you have to change trains in Valencia, an intermediate city between choir and Carúpano, for this reason the trip is longer and lasts about 30 hours.
Finding food in Coro is very difficult. Food is increasingly difficult and because of its high prices, it is very difficult to buy. INDUCED HYPERINFLATION NEVER HELPS US TO LIVE.
I decided to travel to Caracas to bring them food, I got a government-controlled ticket and I will travel to bring them the food. My son Moisés traveled from Coro to Caracas to look for food.
I will make that trip to allow my children to spend December with provisions, in Caracas we will meet, I will take the food to Caracas, he will come to Caracas and then he will return to Coro and I will go back to Carúpano. For the first time in 28 years we will spend Christmas and the end of the year separated.
When they told me about STEEMIT, I thought it would be a solution to appease the tragedy that we live. I would get another income that would allow us to meet certain needs, such as the costs of the passage of my children's trip and solve some other things. It has really become impossible, because it is not what I expected.
Take advantage of this offer they made me and I liked it because, really, I like to write. So I thought it would be another opportunity to do something that I like and also, it would allow me the benefit of receiving other income.
I have written several post since I joined in October, one per day and the results have not been favorable. When you write a post it reads and if your content is valuable and you like it, then you vote. I like to read the posts and vote for them even though I still do not have the power to vote, but I think that is a motivation for the author.
I have demotivated several times and have had several friends who encourage me to continue as 
Then it seems that you must belong to a group to be voted for ... the method must have a more practical solution. Everyone writes, everyone reads, everyone wins.
I am writing this post because I feel very unmotivated, and it must be for the holidays, for not celebrating as usual, because my children will not be at home, because I do not have resources, because after living comfortably now we can not celebrate even together as family because the crisis affects us to the extent of penetrating the purest feelings of separating families.
AND THE PENALTIES ARE SO GREAT, that for this reason I always entrust myself to God, I ask God at every moment to give me the strength to overcome these adversities.
And I pray daily that we can get out of this sad and unjust situation that Venezuelans are living.
WE ARE INNOCENT LIVING A WAR OF A FEW.
WE SUFFER FROM THE DISAVENIENCES OF A FEW
WE ARE SEPARATED BY THE MALVADES OF A FEW.
WE ARE SEPARATED BY THE EVILS OF A FEW.