I've always been curious about the subjective life of the everyday Venezuelan but could never get past the smoke and mirrors of international political players to come to something that looks like a well-rounded idea about your country.
As far as suffering... It is a thing. I think the most psychically healthy way of dealing with it is to not contextualize it subjectively as a thing that is happening to you. It's difficult to do, especially in an itemized world were the individual is seen as the only valid point of action and the person as a part of a body, the community, is forgotten.
Thanks for stopping by. We've lived a very peculiar situation for over 2 decades now, but in the last 2 years or so things have gotten beyond bizarre.
For those who have supported the government since 1999 things have been pretty "stable": same narrative, same expectations, same enemies. But for those who have opposed the government, this has been a roller coaster mixed with russian roulette. Our allies and enemies change, the opposition adopts the government's discourse, our leaders end up being as corupt as the government, which, given the circumstances, make them worse.
We never know what to expect. We ran out of scenarios. We lvie everyday with detachment and indifference.
We got used to things not working, from public to private institutions; we got used to fearing the police more than the criminals; we got used to criminals ruling over the government; we got used to quitting traditions and culture, from birthdays to big holidays; we got used to our children asking why things here are so different to things in commercials around the world; we got used to our children not making plans for the future. That has been the msot dramatic part of this tragedy. We ran out of Life-is-Beautiful-sort-of answers.