In Which we have the nostalgia for the wrong year, and hope for Venezuela finally

Good morning, sir, happy Saturday, madame, jolly readers of this present post! All of you a dear friend in potential! How are you? As for me, I am tired but okay. A bit battered, true, I eat and feel no relieve of hungry feeling, maybe I need something more substancial, and we do have food here today, thankfully! It is the beginning of the month, and as such, mom did the groceries, I did some purchases of light snacks for myself. I am aware that some moments due to logistical issues, or sometimes lack of funds, we are out of our refreshments, but today is not one of those. So, my current lack of nourishment is just myself not wanting to cook, not right now. Even if this affects my mood, there is much to celebrate actually. On the third day of the year, Venezuela has finally reason to rejoice. The misdeeds of the demon dictador Maduro finally came to haunt him, as Trump, taking back the heeds of foreign affairs from the inaction of Biden, has arrested such bad and communist and evil (to be fair, bad, evil and communist mean the same thing), man, taking him to justice in American soil. Apart from his election rigging, brutal taken out of the opposition, promotion of economic chaos and weaponization of hyperinflation, there is his human trafficking record, his association with organized criminal groups as well as drug cartel meddling, and promotion and weaponization of the american migrant crisis to sow chaos in the United States, much to the rejoicement of China, that has nonetheless decided Venezuela was not worth the trouble. For all those evil acts, Maduro has finally caused enough toil, and as such, America acted, which is long long overdue, his regime is on the brink of collapse, and I hope it may be no more by Monday, if possible, we should pray for it.

This brings me hope for better days for Brazil as well. I am tired and my brain goes to overdrive trying to bring my enthusiasm down. My first instinct is to throw some fireworks and celebrate that brazilian president could be after all defeated in the election ballout this October. While Venezuelans are one step ahead on the road back to normalcy, away from the socialist nightmare, brazilians are not as much. There is, here, much to be done, our road is trickier and we must hold our breaths here further. Venezuela is coming out of their captivity, Brazil is not there yet. And overall, liberty is never one step away from being taken out, one must not be triumphalist. Caution always is a good mood to have. 

Some say 2026 is the new 2016. I don't know if I like that. Though 2016 was not my worst year, that title belongs to 2014, it was nonetheless not a good one for me, and I dislike the whole mainstream culture of the time. I have little good memories for the songs and the aesthetic of 2016, or the second half of the decade of 2010 as a whole. This one decade is a mixed bag for me. It started strong with the years of 2011 and 2012 being very good on my life, or at least reminded as such. The trend upwards has been observed since 2008, I think, it was when I started doing some therapy treatment. I did suffer greatly from the psychological impact of a strong pneumonia in the same year, 2008, and went on a mental crisis that lasted till around 2012. Still, for some reason, I don't have much ill towards the memories of those days. So, 2008 till 2012 was the best moments of my late childhood-early teens. But 2013 was quite a chaotic one, that I still hold scars from even today, literally, as a glassdoor broke down on me. The biggest ones are the mental ones, though, the big shock of having my relative and tranquil good moments of 2012 suddenly cut short by a series of bad events and ongoing mounting crisis of the time. 2014 was my worst year ever, and 2015 was not much better. 2016 was the beginning of the end of high school nightmare, but I think I would only start returning to some, relative good moments truly starting in freaking 2024! So, yes, almost a decade of melancholia and huge mental strain. So, no, I don't want 2026 to be the new 2016. And I really hope I never grow comfortable with the idea of even the 2000s becoming something "vintage". Really, what is wrong with these young people? 

Anyway, if we are to compare 2026 to any year, I suggest perhaps emulating a bit of 1989? It was the year of the collapse of the soviet bloc, with the fall of the Berlin wall. I pray that we can see the end of a strong communist country on the globe at last, work that was gaining traction in the late 1980's. Venezuela could be the collapse of the Berlin wall in Latin America. Bolivia and Argentina remind me of Poland and Hungary, on the sense of moving away from communism even before the straining of the USSR was made obvious and mainstream. If the young want to emulate any decade, better they emulate 1989, not 2016. That is my sincere advice.

Today, and I have had plans for this topic for a while, I was planning to write about CDs and Aero, but the developments made me decide those would have to wait a bit. Though battered, and grumpy that I will likely have to cook some food, after all (and grateful I have the food to cook in the first place), I do celebrate with the people of Venezuela. Because my mother and brother here are unfortunately communists, and under the spell of such heinous regime, they do not share my glee and enthusiasm. Unless I want us to fight and reach the point of straining, where I'd likely be much less tolerated here, I painfully must temper my smile. But make no mistake, God bless Venezuela, and someday we all will see ourselves free from communism. 

As such, I reach the end of this present post. Thank you my friend for reading! I don't even know why I write, but if any friend reaches my words and feel touched by them, maybe that was worth it after all, and I myself like to talk of my thoughts out of my head. I will be back here to the blog real soon, to talk more of my thoughts, ideas, rants... hope before the end of next week. We'll see, until then, farewell, see you real soon!