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The Simple Life

During this pandemic, I’ve learned to live differently, it’s an opportunity to understand that the here and now is what really matters.

It’s happened to me twice now. Every time it’s happened, I’ve thought that I may have stirred some kind of attraction in them.

There are many capitalist societies without democracy in today’s world. However, democracies without capitalism have never existed.

This is how we see “the situation”, this modern version of the “Special Period”, as coined by Fidel Castro.

This isn’t just a geopolitical challenge, but something that also affects the very narrative of democratic societies

Medicine is one thing that can’t be found anywhere, for a while now. Going to a drugstore and getting medicine is a titanic task.

How to explain that the minimum wage in a country is one dollar a month and that it’s been like this for several years? How do people get by?

Sometimes, I forget the everyday displeasure of waiting in line, because luckily, I have a neighbor who does me the favor of avoiding them.

I owe the almost sensual pleasure I have for butterflies to my childhood stamp-collecting hobby. Back then…

When I go outside every morning, I run into lots of people I know, all of them hiding behind their masks. We compliment the masks we wear.