Planning doesn't mean achieving
This past year has taught me how cruel life can be. Sometimes, even if we have goals and plans for the year, that doesn’t mean they’ll always come true. I’ve gone through a lot of changes in my life over the last two years; I’ve let go of things I’m passionate about, and I can’t find inspiration in anything anymore. I started the year feeling optimistic, wanting to fulfill several dreams and feel better about myself, even though I wasn’t doing what I loved most as often anymore. But it’s been one setback after another, and my faith is fading more and more, especially now that I no longer have those activities that used to help take my mind off things for a while.
And one of my main goals was actually to remodel my house—I’ve been dreaming about it for many years: changing the flooring, the kitchen and bathroom tiles, and also fixing up the walls in my bedroom. But every month I try to save up the money for that, something in the house breaks, and now the tragedy unfolding in Venezuela has also affected that dream. so now it’s almost impossible. Right now, we have to make food our top priority, because we don’t know how this will affect business—we’re barely in the first few weeks of this disaster, during which so many lives have been lost. To make matters worse, part of the kitchen tile came loose during the earthquake. Even though several days have passed, there have been aftershocks, and I’ve noticed noises coming from that wall. I saw pieces of tile on the floor and realized it was coming loose even more. I decided to remove it myself because that noise was making me too nervous, We were hoping to buy some new tiles, but that might take a couple of months.
It came out pretty easily, but I won't lie—I was a little scared to pull it out. I felt like the wall was going to come crashing down on me, but it didn't. Luckily, the damage was limited to the tile; the wall seems to be fine…
When this year began, I never imagined this would be the “makeover” I’d get, haha, but oh well… I guess it could have been worse, even though everyone carries their own sorrows and sadness on their shoulders. It’s really been hard to keep going with so many problems. I always try to stay strong by telling myself that the worst is behind us, but this year is so strange that I wouldn’t be surprised if one night a thousand spaceships landed and abducted us all.
Well, that's how my wall looks for now. I hope to fix it up in the not-too-distant future, but honestly, I'm not going to plan anything else. If things go perfectly, great; if not, it doesn't matter. Life is short, and it doesn't let us plan anything because we don't know if we'll actually be able to fulfill those wishes or if we'll even make it to next year.
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