In this holiday season, it is perhaps useful to read about how other people approach the season. These are excerpts from a post by Yoani Sanchez at the GeneracionY blog. You can read the whole thing here. Follow Ms. Sanchez and this blog, You will learn a lot – and realize how much we have to be thankful for:
“Those December days are approaching when we all take stock, set new goals and forecast what is going to happen. The year 2023 arrives on an Island plunged into a deep crisis, with an uncertain outlook. In the absence of certainties, I want to venture on this list (very particular, subjective and absolutely determined by my circumstances) my personal and national toeholds, what I think will happen next year:
I am going to continue living here in Cuba, in the country where I was born. I am stubborn (very stubborn) and one day my ashes will be scattered on this earth, under a guava tree. …
I am not going to allow the political police to prevent me from enjoying the sunrises, the smell of the romerillo daisies and the waves breaking in Caleta de San Lázaro. That’s mine too. …
I will continue without saying a word to State Security. If you call me, you know, I’ll repeat what I’ve said so much: ‘I don’t talk to the political police.’ I don’t care if they are named after the guerrilla Ernesto , the disappeared Camilo or the Pharaoh Ramses. I have nothing to tell you. Silent strike is what it takes in those cases and they already know it. …
But the most important thing is that I will continue to be a happy person. My happiness does not depend on the political or economic model in which I live. I am happy because I breathe, because I am alive, because I understand that each breath is a miracle for me and I owe it to all those who preceded me. I am happy despite the dictatorship and living in a failed country. I am happy because that is also a form of rebellion.”
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