A friend is an angel
He or she who has a friend has a treasure. It is a phrase that I have read somewhere and I have treasured it for myself. Actually, as the years go by, we get to know many people and then we accept them as our friends.
It also happens that in many cases those who were initially our friends change with time or we change and now we do not recognize them as those people who were once true friends.
People have their different characters but there is something that we find in those people that make it so easy for us to appreciate them as much as to point them out as our friends. And I don't mean that they have attitudes of being famous or wealthy people or any other qualifier of power. It's just the spiritual part that sometimes shouts in our faces how good a human being they can be.
Those people that I have had by my side I have tried to keep by my side for as long as I could. I was very friendly if that is the term for collecting friends. As time went by many did not pass the test of time and undermined the seeds of friendship and became just my life acquaintances.
I have many who are my acquaintances but soul friends, the ones we call brothers are only two. One friend I met when I was in high school and to this day is my sister and the other is a great woman I met in my early days as a village doctor. They are still there and we are very good soul friends. Their children are my nephews and my son to them is their nephew.
Not many people can get to have the title of siblings through years of friendship because along the way there are many who pretend to be friends.
I consider myself a woman with a lot of providence because having a friend is wealth, I have two great women as friends and sisters and that makes me extremely enriched.
Thank God for giving me the joy of sending me these two angels who have endured over time enduring my bad character, my bad attitudes, and other defects and have known how to give me the great demonstration of their infinite unwavering love. Just like me to them.
If you have a friend value it, not everyone knows how to be friends, many want to be friends but few can prove it over the years.
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I am @gertu13 from Venezuela to the world.
Stealing is a bad habit.
It saddens me to know of people who are dedicated to seeing the belongings of others to plot how to get hold of them. I am sorry to see and to know that there are parents who prepare their children to do acts of "liveliness" that is to say that these children are smarter than others and practice theft.
A person who is trained to be a professional in theft sooner or later becomes a thief even from his own family. At some point in life, the person who steals needs to have something that his own family has as property and takes it.
The one who acquires the bad habit of taking advantage of someone's property for his own benefit sooner or later must pay for his bad deed. The objects that belong to us are not that they have our name implicit in the object but we do leave an imprint on them that makes them ours. If you really give it to people you like, that person will remember you because he feels that in that object there is a certain presence of the donor.
It is not far from the truth, we are all energy and objects also have energy. That energy can move from one place to another so I firmly believe in what I say. When we have an object that even if it is not of economic value may have a great sentimental value. That is the energy that has that object, that energy that was transferred from a person who loved that object. Who donated it to a loved one or simply inherited it from someone very precious.
The truth is that the person who takes it without being invited to have it is appropriating the object and the energy it contains and does not belong to him. Therefore that energy will not complement it but will reject it.
The person who is dedicated to theft never has a good future, call it Karma, the law of action and reaction, the law of attraction or simply reap what is sown as a good sinner.
As an adult, I must say that it is very pitiful to see some parents say that their children are in jail or have been murdered for stealing. The parents say they were good people because they stole from others but they did not kill, and they say any number of other justifications for their family members.
I am sorry for the loss of a human being who is irreplaceable and unique, but I can say that stealing is of the same human quality as killing, lying, or being unfaithful. All these disqualifications for a human being have no justification of being because it is already forewarned that they will bring bad consequences to those who do it.
As I said at the beginning of my text, it saddens me to know that people being so young are badly influenced by their relatives to take strange objects of bad origin for their homes.
How many times have I gone shopping at the supermarket and bought a product that when I opened it was empty? Someone took it and left only the cover. That person should suffer the consequences of his actions even if he does not know the harm he caused.
In my opinion, we should be stricter and try to open the eyes of our family and friends about the act of plagiarizing to acquaintances or strangers, the evil is the same. The evil that is placed on the person who steals and little by little that burden becomes heavier until life takes its toll.
Let us give more importance to this in our homes to our children. They will be the future of good or bad habits that will be repeated from generation to generation.
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I am @gertu13 from Venezuela to the world.
Speaking of scarcity.
"When the poor get poorer." This is the title of the post I read from my friend @Ruffa you can go through and read it and you will have another idea of why I decided to write about this today.
I have always thought that poverty comes from oneself, from a mind that cannot create, from someone who can only complain in the face of life situations.
Life is hard and you have to fight very hard and constantly to get ahead. If you have in your mind an infinite desire to achieve a desire and you fight for it sooner or later you will achieve it.
The one who lives only complains that life is hard and does not fight with a firm idea and with all his strength will never get out of poverty. This is my way of seeing things because nowadays I can say that I am not poor but I did live in that condition when I was a child.
I have also been able to see some movies of very successful people and when they do their biography it is about someone who has gone through a very miserable life and decided to fight against everything to achieve their goal.
I can't say that I am a successful woman because I don't know exactly what it means to be successful in life. What I can say is that I achieved my goals and fought hard to achieve them. I still have other goals and objectives and I know what I have to do to obtain them only now do I take it slower and hope to achieve them in a long time.
When I was little I went through a lot of bad times because at home we only made money to eat. We never thought about buying clothes, shoes, or school supplies, the latter was a luxury.
My parents are immigrants. They came in times of crisis for their country and arrived with nothing to this new continent for them. In the minds of a couple of young people, they only brought their hands and their great desire to work to move forward. My father worked as a laborer in many places. He told me that they asked him what his trade was and he said he was a gardener because he didn't know how to do anything, he didn't even know anything about gardening. He learned from so many jobs he had in gardens.
And so little by little, he got the idea of raising money to get his own business as a merchant in which he worked with my mother to raise her children. Then the rest of us came along and he went from one business to another. My father was never business minded. What he did was struggle just to survive and make ends meet. On the other hand, our mother thought outside the box and instilled in us the desire to better ourselves through study.
We lived through all the moments of scarcity with only one goal in mind. To get out of poverty. We did it, we all studied, and we all fought fiercely to achieve a goal. Each of my siblings struggled independently to get out of their poverty. I have already written a lot about my life as a student.
I had to pay all my expenses at all times. I learned to manage myself so that I could make ends meet. So did my siblings.
So may I ask...
***Why is the struggle for some people less difficult than for others?***
I remember yesterday with a lot of sadness but also with joy, with a lot of pride for what I achieved. Many other people spend their whole lives complaining that because of the government, because of their family, or because of something else, they did not manage to get out of poverty.
I conclude that everything is a matter of attitude. If you want to achieve a goal...
***what are you willing to sacrifice to achieve it?***
In life, everything is a sacrifice. Sometimes you can't sleep for days, sometimes you can't eat for days, and sometimes you can't share for days. When you get what you have wanted to get and what you have fought for, you have already visualized the triumph so much that it does not feel like something new but like something already won previously, at least that's how I felt, after all my sacrifices.
What I want to say with all this that I am telling you is that for me poverty is in our minds, in how we prepare ourselves to receive the world, in how we want to get out of the situation we are in. If you want to achieve something and you are involving third parties to help you the day you fail what you will have achieved is to blame others for not achieving your goals.
I recommend that when you start to fight for something you count on yourself and your means only. Along the way, you may find benefactors that come and go but in the end, you will always have yourself.
You will go through many stages during the struggle, you will have happy moments but you will also have very sad moments when you will think about giving it all up. What I can recommend is that if you feel like laughing, laugh and if you feel like crying, cry. Tomorrow will be another day and you will be in a different mood and you will see things again with a different lens. In the same way, never break your dreams, be firm with them, and in the end, you will have your reward.
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I am @gertu13 from Venezuela to the world.
We live to enjoy
Life is the way it is, we don't need to change it for our satisfaction. We do not need to pretend to change it to make us feel better. The same happens with people, sometimes we feel overwhelmed and we want people to change the way they are.
What happens with us is that we want to change the world and only the world is the way it is. We don't need to change anything to live in it. What we need is to adapt to all the changes. The beauty of the world is in its simplicity, in accepting that in everything there is a very particular beauty, that everything is different and different through the lenses of thousands of spectators.
What is a problem for me is a solution for someone else. What for some is a stone in their path for others is a challenge that calls to be challenged. The important thing is that we must transcend beyond what we think, feel, think, or live.
In this world, we are all important because we have come to it and it has not been by chance. We all have a mission even if we do not know it, even if we do not understand it because life has its mysteries. Sometimes we realize over the years that our lives have been tied by events with people who we saw pass through our lives without pain or glory but who have had something to do with the situation we are facing today.
Memories come from a yesterday that was not very significant and for the now it has great meaning. We must go through life leaving good footprints. After all, when we look back our footprints may be blurred because we did not leave much. Yet our present is tied to the past by our deeds, memories, and situations that may not have meant much to us.
Sometimes we strive to achieve goals that are far beyond our reach and no matter how hard we try we don't succeed. Perhaps in the future, we can better visualize why our paths have been cut short.
I remember a friend of mine who was trying to get passport papers and visas for her parents because she wanted to have them by her side in another country and everything was too much of a struggle. She lived in a constant struggle trying to do what she thought was best for her parents. She was a fighter.
Once when her mother was an old lady, while my friend was arranging the papers to go to another country, her mother fell ill and never got out of bed except to go to meet God. My friend was frustrated by the situation. Even more so because she could not come to this country because during the pandemic, flights were forbidden.
She kept insisting on arranging the documents for her father and everything was difficult, she fell into a strong confrontation with herself because she could not arrange anything according to her needs and will. She changed in her way of being, she was irritated for a long time. Months passed and there were obstacles here and there.
One day I learned that my friend was ill. She was hospitalized and had been infected by the deadly virus for the third time. This time she couldn't fight it and lost her battle with life.
I was very sorry. I lost a friend who was very troubled in her way of thinking and living but had a big heart, with which she helped many people. She was even a benefactor of some medical centers in my country.
Which made me remember what I was constantly telling her. Don't fight against the circumstances you don't know why everything happens in this difficult way. Do what you have to do but take it easy and wait for the normal course of events. He never listened to me, of course.
The explanation of everything did not reach her but it did reach me. Her life was not going to be very long as fate had this letter in store for her that she would never know. If her father had traveled as she wanted he would have been alone in a country unknown to him. He is not a young man, he is not on his own because he is a very old man. I believe that even today they have not told her father that his daughter, my friend, died.
Life is a school that teaches us so much about our own experiences and the experiences of other people. Learning from everyone and everything makes us better people and more knowledgeable about the authentic ways of life.
Let us enjoy everyone and everything around us. Let's not complain about things that are different from us. It is difficult, it has taken me a lifetime to understand it, but I have had the pleasure that God has allowed me to see with my own eyes the changes that life makes and why we should respect all living beings as they are.
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I am @gertu13 from Venezuela to the world.
Life is a constant confrontation
The way to withstand the onslaughts that life brings us every day is not to worry about what we cannot control. Over the years I have learned that it is useless to torment ourselves to solve the negative situations that come our way if the solution is not in our hands.
Worrying unduly is exhausting for the mind and for the organism. Then we should try to do our best to solve what is in our hands without putting too much effort into trying to find ways to solve all the worries because that only wears us out physically.
Life brings its own difficulties every day. Sometimes we try to avoid the events that may bring worries and we cannot escape from them because they themselves go looking for us. Without realizing it and without looking for them, problems come into our presence and want us to be unbalanced in trying to make everything easier but with the worry that comes from having problems.
My heart races, my body weakens, and my mind traps me in a series of thoughts trying to find a way out of a big problem that I did not look for but is a consequence of some of my actions.
I take a deep breath, it is necessary to know how to breathe because we fill our lungs and our organism with toxic products because we do not know how to breathe. Taking the air in an upright position with the arms extended upwards and then gradually letting it out as we lower our arms is healthy for the organism. It should be repeated several times and we will feel the renewal immediately.
To fill our body with good oxygen is to have a great battle won. Being oxygenated our thoughts become clearer for the conflicting solutions. We solve what we can according to our possibilities and those that we cannot solve we leave as they came. What it means is that if it came alone it will only go away in God's perfect time.
As we grow and evolve we realize that what drowned us in a glass of water only needed a time of liberation to return to being everything as it was before his arrival. It is necessary to keep a clear thought that one problem is gone but others will come. Knowing or understanding that difficulties will always come and go and that we have learned how to manage life better gives us a great advantage and gain in life.
This is what I have learned as I have been growing up independently since the young age of independence as I was 15 years old. When I decided to take the reins of my life and embark on the long road I have traveled today.
When I started alone, I had many failures because I did not have the right tools to face them, but then, when I got out of one effort and entered into another, over the years it brought me painful repercussions. These forced me to undertake new habits to understand with difficulty that we should not force anything and everything has its proper solution in its perfect time.
I do not want this to change your conscience or your way of being, I write this to let you know that I had to learn how to lead my life with a little common sense so as not to live overwhelmed. What I am today does not reflect my yesterday. My hectic life, my sufferings, and my worries have been changed by my common sense. I live better and I live free.
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I am @gertu13 from Venezuela to the world.
Strengthen your body.
Age is just a number because age does not define us. I still have a youthful mentality but my physical condition has already taken its toll on me because of the abuse of my body over the years.
I am obese, I have been obese for most of my life. I have always tried to diet but then I go back to being just as much of a problem with eating. I like to eat and usually what I like is what makes me fat.
I like ice cream, pizzas, hamburgers, foods with sauces, and carbohydrates. Of course, I also eat fruits and salads but those are not fattening.
Because I am a bit overweight I have problems with my knee joints. When I was with the covid virus I was sleeping in a bad position. I had to sleep in a semi-sitting position to be able to breathe well because I felt like I was suffocating at night when I was in the decubitus position.
With the semi-sitting position, my knees were forced to extend and the ligaments of my knees were stretched and causing me pain to move. So when I was well enough to breathe in the proper position I went back to sleeping in the decubitus position but my knees were in pain.
I was treated with anti-inflammatories, a compressive bandage on the knee, and limited movement. Sometimes the cats would unintentionally step in front of me and I had to make quick movements to avoid stepping on them, but that gave me more pain. So I had to watch very well where I was walking.
With the days my knees are already more relieved. I still can't go out for my walks in the afternoon and I can't do it if I want to because winter has finally arrived in my region and it rains every afternoon.
I am of the compression bandages on my knee, off the anti-inflammatory and I am trying to cut down on sugars and carbs to keep the weight off a bit.
I like to drink the green juices on an empty stomach even though I ran out of my veggie stash and have to wait until Thursday which is my son's day off to go shopping and renew the veggie pantry.
I am hoping the green juices will help me get the antioxidants and trace minerals needed to further reduce my limitation of movement in my knees. I like to take natural medicine to revitalize myself instead of using pharmacological medications for a long time as all they do is unbalance my body on the other hand while trying to fix an injury on the one hand.
I recommend everyone to drink their green vegetable juices every day on an empty stomach before making breakfast. You will see how or within days you already feel strengthened.
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I'm @gertu13 from Venezuela to the world.
I forget
What can happen after the death of the human body? Many people have studied this aspect and each scholar gives his version of it. There is a medium that claims to talk to people who have died. Many claims that death does not exist because we are transformed into other evolutionary species. They are the ones who believe in reincarnation.
So we go around the world and the studies continue, the proofs of the existence of life after life.
There are those of us who read and believe in the word of God, ah but there are also groups separated and congregated in the different sects that have their divergent points about the meaning of the word of God.
So, we are left the same. With so much information regarding death and in the end, I just know that I know nothing about it.
I can say what I have learned over the years that is that being alive is a miracle of God, we are a perfect machine of God's creation, but this machine has an expiration date and we do not know when is the date of the end of our existence.
That we must be prepared to receive death? Tell me who is. I remember when the priest in my parish asked us... raise your hand if you think you are prepared to receive death.
I noticed only one person who raised her hand. I don't know why she would do such an action. Although I have read that in the Word it tells us that we are to be like a bride waiting for her future husband. Well-groomed and with everything necessary for the reception and blessing, I don't think I will ever be like that bride.
I forget that I should hug a lot as if it were the last time, I forget that I should not argue too much. I forget that I shouldn't waste my time getting upset over little things. I forget that I should quickly content myself when I get upset.
I forget that when I go to bed this may be my last night. I forget that when I go to sleep it may be my last hug to my son. I forget that I have not called my siblings today to give them God's blessing and tell them that I love them. I forget that I should do more good than evil.
I forget so many things these days that pass so quickly. These days when we know that death is the surest thing afterlife. And yet I always forget that I should embrace more, that I should forget more, that I should kiss more, that I should enjoy more, that I should share more.
I forget everything. The most certain thing about being alive is that we are going to die at the least expected moment and I keep making plans for this and for that.
Why should I live planning? If I already know that at any moment I can leave my plans unfinished. So, should I stop making long-term plans? Or should I continue with my plans even if I take life more calmly?
I think that I have already stopped running and now I keep on walking looking for things but with the clear thought that in a moment I will be somewhere else that I don't know, and where we all have waited and know that we will go.
I think that I have already obtained many blessings and that I can receive others but that now I must walk more thinking in a firm than in wet. My dreams are different, my ideals are different, and I am waiting for them calmly, without racing. With measured efforts as I am also waiting for the farewell to come without warning.
This is me in my deliberations. May God find us all prepared on the final day.
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I am @gertu13 from Venezuela to the world
Do you like to fix your bed?
What is the first thing you do in the morning when you get up? I go straight to the bathroom, then go back to my room, make my bed and then go to the kitchen to make a tasty coffee.
It's been a habit for many years now, making my bed is something I can't help but do before I start my day. And IF for some circumstance in my life, I can't make my bed, rest assured I feel bad.
I can stop making my bed when I have a bad spine, I suffer from low back pain because I am overweight, yes I am obese and that has caused me to suffer from my spine all my life.
When I have low back pain I can't flex so I can't extend my bed and I suffer because of it. I suffer because of my pain and the discomfort of not being able to extend my bed.
You know, I am such a maniac of an extended bed that when I get up at night to empty my bladder when I return to bed I have to extend my sheet and blanket to feel the pleasure of a good bed. Yes, at night or early morning so many times I get up so many times I fix my sheet and blanket.
When I toss and turn a lot because of some discomfort that prevents me from sleeping, I have to get up and fix the bed so I can go back to sleep.
It seems like an obsessive-compulsive issue but today I found out by reading an article on Facebook that says a lot of things about stretching the bed. I can now understand my annoyance about making the bed.
It so happens that making the bed or stretching the bed or making the bed whichever way you say in your region has several benefits for the body.
One of the statements I read is that it gives joy and pleasure to the person who adopts the habit. I tell you that I felt identified with this because it really gives me great satisfaction to have my bed well arranged. Walking by the door of my room, seeing it open, and seeing my bed with its sheets stretched out gives me a smile of satisfaction.
Another statement says that it makes us more in control of ourselves. Surely yes, deciding what's right and what's wrong makes us a little more confident. And seeing a neatly made bed sure gives us a feeling of having done something very well.
The third statement talks about starting the day off on the right foot. Fixing something that gives you a feeling of joy at the start of the day should leave the body with the endorphins needed to give us the strength to keep doing things right.
Another affirmation is the one that leaves us the daily exercise of making the bed. Because it is the first exercise to be done in the morning. Turning over the bed to fix the corners, shake the pillows, and smooth out the wrinkles. Good exercise.
These are some other health benefits that I don't remember now but reading them makes me realize why I like to keep my bedroom tidy.
What do you say? Are you one of those who like to tidy up or does it just not mean anything to you?
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I am @gertu13 from Venezuela to the world.
Don't let your left hand know.
These days I am watching some videos that bring me certain questions. Money is indispensable in life to cover our needs but the point is when we become greedy and want to get money through any ruse.
In some videos that I have seen, I realize that people get followers to invent many lies. They make believe that they are family-loving people, pet-loving people, people-loving people, and many other things.
I have seen many videos where people record themselves giving things like money, food, and electrical appliances and they are recording themselves in action. The person who is donating is in the video and I see how many followers they get on that video.
We like to do acts of kindness but if we are people of God we don't shout out the gifts we give. We can't give a gift like clothes and food, say God loves them and with such a fresh face go out in a video smiling and giving.
Have you read the Word where it says that your left-hand does not notice what your right hand does? Then I wonder how a person of God can go out recording himself and giving things in the name of God, just to appear very smiling on camera.
Those are ways to get followers, to get money. Can you imagine the number of videos that many more people who give away gifts anonymously would have to make?
I don't agree with making a big deal out of the good deeds we do for a sibling.
I have read of parents, both female and male, who make videos about their families and then turn out to be abusers. Of people who have pets just to go on the air and say they love them and then the truth of the abuse comes out.
Money is not bad, it is not bad to want to have money, it is the way we want to have it that becomes a bad habit. We cannot act with selfishness, with evil, with mistreatment in order to obtain the greatest reward for ourselves. It is ill-gotten money even if it is in a good way as it is by using the networks.
The end cannot justify the means. It cannot be that to obtain the money we mistreat children in a video, we mistreat our partner in a video, we mistreat nature. It is very sad when I hear that some of this has happened by making a video of people who get a lot of followers who believe in the goodness of that human being and they are mocked for this.
Let us support good works but let us also have the discernment to know if that good work is of God or simply of man's vanity.
Have you ever come across one of these videos that have gone viral and then discovered that it was of a human being with very few human values?
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Character and temperament
Every day we learn new things, for me it is a pleasure to read certain articles that lead me to reflect on what I have thought about a point so far. Today I want to share with those who are willing to read my publication, it is something about character and temperament.
According to what I have heard, they are two different things that I have been handling all my life as badly as many others have done. It is then that I went to find out about the terms and I realize that it is true, I used these terms inappropriately. Let me explain why.
It so happens that I often say that I am a person of strong character, I have been wrong to classify myself as such because I am not.
Knowing now that character is the personality that dominates us, I feel the need to tell you that a strong character is the one that dominates the situation in which we find ourselves. It is not the one who shouts the loudest, the one who imposes himself to something, the one who gets annoyed and upset the fastest without rationing, no, it is not like that.
To have a strong character is to dominate the temperament. This is not easy when we are people who get upset very quickly with everything. And then we raise our voice and impose ourselves. To have a strong character is to dominate our temperament and to learn to be calm in the face of adversity. To know that we should not respond to everything by imposing our opinion. That sometimes it is better to avoid responding with shouts and haughty voices so that others will minimize and accept our ideas.
A person of strong character learns to be calm and if someone offends us, shouts at us and wants to impose on us just proceed to not respond and back down. We can give a smile, a nod of the head or a simple hand signal that we are calm. This is to have a strong character. Mastering the aggressive temperament and staying at peace with ourselves.
I have always started from the idea that offensive words only attack us if we allow them to. When we respond to a rudeness with another rudeness neither of us wins, both are rude, but if you respond with a smile and the other feels more angry because he does not master his character because he is weak, then he responds with a strong and aggressive temper.
Controlling our strong temperament by being more and more docile to aggressions is a way to control the weak character that does not let itself be bent.
When we control the aggressive, strong, imposing temperament, we will be one step away from breaking a weak character in order to become more and more of a strong character.
I hope that with my words I have been able to reach the minds of people who are always on the offensive and trying to dominate others with our strong temperament because we simply have not learned to control our strong temperament and we can become people of a strong and calm character.
What do you think about your character and temperament?
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I am @gertu from Venezuela to the world.
Feeling lonely or being alone
I read a post about being alone in the world and how it would be our way of acting. I really felt a sense of hopelessness knowing that I could be alone in the world.
The truth is that I can never imagine being alone in the world. Trying to think about that without living it is very difficult. We never know how we will react to a situation without living it. We can imagine many things but when we are facing the situation itself, that is another level.
I say this because in my life I always thought about doing one thing or another in a given situation but when the time came I never thought I would react the way I did.
I once experienced a robbery. A robber came and showed me a gun and asked me to hand over my phone and my valuables. I was sitting and waiting for my car to be washed. When I raised my head I could see the gun in front of me and I handed him my belongings along with my car keys. He gave me back the car keys and I gave them back to him. I don't know what happened to me but I didn't think about anything but just giving him everything and having him take that gun away from in front of my face.
I had always thought about giving up my belongings in the face of a robbery but I never thought about giving my car away so freely and so fast, just because I saw that gun so close to me.
And so in my life, I have thought about how to react to a casual event, and then when I have it in front of me it has not been my thought-out reaction but a quick reaction without logic.
So I can say that I don't know how I might react if I am alone one day when I wake up and see that I have no one else by my side.
I think my sense of survival would be activated immediately and I would try to find ways to protect myself right away. I don't know what else I would do, it depends on what's in front of me. I think it all depends on what comes my way. If I have water, food, and shelter. What comes up next to me and how I would react would depend on what I have at my fingertips.
Watching so many movies about being alone in the world gives me a feeling of sadness. Having nothing and no one in front of me. I could converse with plants, with a dog or cat, or even with a material object as the case may be. Not receiving answers is the problem. Somehow I would feel so bad if I didn't get answers from something other than a living being.
Even in the worst of times human beings are prepared to be resilient. We are mentally prepared to get out of precarious situations because we have a sense of survival that is innate. Each individual is an independent way of being or acting.
Thinking back to the Tom Hans movie when he experienced the trauma of being alone on the island with a soccer ball. Trying to escape from a lonely island. I think that I would not be able to jump into the water with a raft and with so much water ahead of me. I'm afraid of storms, sharks and so many things that I think I would stay on the island as lonely as he was.
Yeah, I don't know, I don't know what would trigger my unconscious way of acting but thinking about it cold, just as I am at home today, I think I would be the most cowardly person in the world when I found myself alone facing the world.
This is what I felt when I read the article of this friend @sage01, please read it.
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I am @gertu13 from Venezuela to the world.
My spoiled cats
Greetings to all cat friends. My kitties don't look happy, I don't know why they are so spoiled with my son and me. They know how to make us listen to them and rule us.
Look how my Copito is, he is the oldest cat. Although he has been through so many adversities he is a fighter cat and he imposes his will on what he wants.
And my Meme, these eyes are not round. He is upset about something and I don't know why. When he is happy he follows me everywhere with his round eyes that make me hug him and spoil him.
I buy the fish-flavored cat kibble for them because they don't like the meat and vegetable-flavored kibble. They dare to leave him in his bowl for hours without trying to eat a bit.
I did the test with a cat from the street. She had already entered my house several times without my knowing it. Until one day when I came in, I saw her very well settled next to my Meme and when she saw me she left. There was not even a kibble in the food containers, I assumed she ate them.
So one day I left the door ajar and walked out, I let her come in. She went straight to the plates of meat kibble with veggies that I bought for my two cats and neither of them liked it. She didn't leave a single kibble on the plates or the floor and then she left.
The conclusion I draw is that they only want to eat her fish-flavored croquettes and the others they won't eat even if they are hungry. I don't know what to do anymore with these two pampered ones who do it frequently. They want to eat my food and I give it to them, they just smell it, pinch it and leave. The cat from the street comes and eats everything.
They only eat what they like and I see that they eat it with enthusiasm, the rest give me bad looks and they don't eat their food even if it stays all day in the dish.
Sometimes I think they behave like a spoiled toddler. I have two children at home that give me so much to think about sometimes.
They are chubby, wormed, neutered, and given love. One sleeps with me and the other sleeps with my son and they both rule us at will. My son and I always have something to say about their behavior. We love them, they are my family and we accept them as they are. They are especially spoiled and spoiled.
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I am @gertu13 from Venezuela to the world.
Visiting the beaches
At present, I am a bit withdrawn from visiting the outdoors. I can go out to my garden and inhale the fragrance that plants, flowers, and fruits give me but beyond going to another space it is risky because I am still in isolation.
I have always been a strong woman who is strengthened by adversity. I feel neither hopeless nor lacking God in my mind nor in my heart but not being able to go out to see the beauties of the places near my home makes me evoke them.
My niece just went to the beach with the kids and passed me the pictures of the beach. They are my closest beaches. That's why I can evoke them as if I were living them.
These beaches of my land are of calm waters, of soft and musical breeze. The breaking of the waves brings enchanting whispers to our ears, that make us dream. That is why the visit to the sea brings rest, rest, and sleep that becomes deep.
These beaches are soft, fine, and warm sands with a calm and leisurely swell that sounds to break on the shore with its arrival and withdrawal, it is so pacifying to see how the waves arrive and bathe the seashore.
When I was young I had a group of best friends with whom I enjoyed whole days of hiking in the mountains, rivers and sunsets, and sunrises at sea.
I remember one day after December 31st, it was already January 1st and 4 am and we all decided to go to the sea. We grouped ourselves in several cars and went in our beach attire. It is a 10 or 15-minute trip depending on where we are. We arrived and admired the beauty of the sunrise over the sea.
Then each one of us collapsed in our exhaustion and fell asleep on top of the beach towels and stayed asleep for several hours. When we woke up the sun was shining brightly. Each and everyone was well sunburned on the side where they had been exposed as they fell asleep.
I am white-skinned and my color was no longer that, I now had a striking tomato red all over my face, back, abdomen and legs. We all laughed at our brutalities as we fell asleep in the sun on the beach. It is a sad memory because the pain after that sunstroke was remembered by all for several days as our skin changed in appearance, from red to blisters, from blisters to peeling, and then the skin itself would come out again and mine came with many freckles. To this day my sun exposure has brought me endless freckles all over my skin.
It is a fond memory of a youthful adventure that if I were to go back to the old days I would repeat again because I enjoyed them so much.
Do you have a pleasant experience to tell about at the beach?
Please tell me about it.
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I am @gertu13 from Venezuela to the world.
Shopping
This morning I went shopping with my son after spending almost a month without going out due to the evil virus that attacked us.
The first thing I saw was a fridge that looks very nice but costs 1500$ so I looked at it and passed by, then I looked at this Mabe washing machine. It is automatic and its price is almost half that of a refrigerator. It costs about $600.
On my birthday I had asked for a dry fryer and today I was looking at various prices and found them to be good. Prices range from $70 to $120. When I had my birthday I was having vertiginous syndrome so we were unable to celebrate. Now my son has told me he is going to give me one of these air fryers. I'm happy about that.
We wandered all over the store looking for our favorite brands in the comestibles and there are endless brands for everything. Long aisles of different brands of coffee, sauces, pasta, and flour of many products.
What pleases me the most are the portions of different kinds of meats and sausages. All of them are well presented and with reasonable prices.
There is an aisle where there are many things for pets, too bad we didn't find many things for cats.
The first trip I made and it was to buy groceries for home. Here I can buy everything without having to leave anything pending to buy elsewhere because even the vegetables are fresh and well packaged. It's a pleasure to go shopping here.
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I’m @gertu13 from Venezuela to the world.
Getting lost in nature.
People throughout history have proven to be resilient. To have great survival power of their own, alone or in groups.
The same I have read of people who have been alone and have fought for their life until they made it and others who have given up and the findings of what they lived through in their last hours have shown what they went through.
I read about a lady over 65 who wanted to go hiking. She took one trail and her husband took another. After two days according to what they had agreed would be the reunion did not happen. The authorities were alerted and began the rescue with many members of civil protection, parks, and knowledgeable groups of the place. By air and by land, but the lady never appeared. They stopped looking for her after about 15 days.
Over the years, I think I read that more than 10 years passed before someone found a camping tent inside a body.
That is how they collected all the details of what happened to the lady and they say that she decided to leave the road to go to relieve herself. She left no signs on the road when she left the path and then when she wanted to return she did not succeed.
She kept going around and around, unable to find a place she recognized. She ran out of provisions and decided to run out of strength, food, and water and stay inside her tent.
She wrote some things while she could and among so many things she left the information of her relatives so they could send her remains to her, someday when they found her remains. She had lost all hope. She recounted what happened. There came a time when she became desperate and totally lost hope.
She was apparently alive for more than 20 days, the time they were searching for her. Apparently every time a group passed near where she was she had already moved from the place and they could not find her because of that. Then she would come back and no one was around.
How life is lost by doing things that we seem to like but for which we are not prepared. Being in the forest and not being able to find water or plants to eat is unfortunate.
And much worse to lose hope for seeing that she no longer had supplies made her die faster. She was still a very skilled woman, with a lot of strength but she couldn't cope with so much.
It is easy for someone who is not mentally prepared to succumb to nature, to spend dark nights alone, to hear strange noises during bedtime, to think that we are alone at the mercy of the weather, the wildlife, the insects.
I don't know what I would do, nor can I imagine myself going through such a situation.
Would you dare to say you would do better?
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I'm @gertu13 from Venezuela to the world.
Evil in real life
Evil exists everywhere and it is unusual to see that in real life there are these cases of parents murdering their children and children murdering their parents.
I remembered a movie I saw many years ago about a boy who was so evil that he killed his little sister by drowning her in a pool or something like that. Years went by and then he killed animals and no one noticed until a boy came along who was his cousin. He had been orphaned and the aunt wanted to keep him with her. But this evil child would have many bad things ahead of him. To the point of realizing that he was an evil murderer with malice aforethought and premeditation.
In real life, some children have murdered their parents to get the benefit of the money they would inherit.
How can we live with a person who seems to be a psychopath and not realize that he has an undesirable personality?
I think that there are people who are different in their way of being that are not necessarily strange but different, but to get to the case of living with people with perverse institutes and not realize it seems to me something so strange.
Generally, we are observers of the behavior of everyone around us. In one way or another, we can observe if the person has evil traits because they hurt animals, they express themselves badly to other animals or simply they are of evil comments concerning other human beings.
That from one day to the next they start to be strange seems so incredible to me. Nobody is strange in a single moment, sometimes they do things and say things that make us doubt their emotional stability, but that they do it in a given moment and have left no traces has not touched me to live it.
I have known psychopathic people who have not become murderers but are very close to being one. One girl was very dominant with her partner and when he was jealous she would go crazy to the point of threatening him with a knife. He thought she would never do it with him but one day she became unhinged and tried to kill him.
She was a very strange girl. That must be how people who have murdered their parents, siblings, relatives, or friends must be who then hide their personality just waiting to collect something important to them. To think that money becomes the primary role in their lives and they murder so quietly that they even eat and sleep in peace after they have committed murder.
I try to understand these minds but I find it so difficult to understand because I don't know how they manage to have such peaceful behavior after having taken other people's lives for such vile purposes as obtaining economic well-being.
Have you ever hated a person so much that you wished them dead?
I have had many confrontations in my life with people of different human conditions but it has not come to my conscience the desire to see them dead to achieve a happy goal for me.
To my understanding, I believe that a person who wishes for death and commits a planned murder must have a part in his brain that does not work like the rest of the world.
This murdering thing is widespread because there are industrial quantities of cases of families where someone has planned a death that in the end has been discovered. I was just meditating on some movie I could see where you notice the different traits of the person that later will be seen as the murderer of his family member.
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I am @gertu13 from Venezuela to the world.
Sometimes I become pensive.
As the years go by, life becomes different. Things happen in other ways. And if there is an illness involved, we realize that what happens to us is even more arbitrary.
When we are young we surround ourselves with so many people we call friends and we have so many family members around us, but then life takes care of sifting through them and leaving only what works for us and what doesn't, is left behind.
Having friends is a blessed blessing from God. Having had the opportunity to have made great people who throughout life remain by our side in good times but even better in bad times.
It is said that a good friend is present in the worst circumstances such as poverty, conflicts, illness, and other situations, but what if this friend is also going through difficult situations because it is already the time of decadence ... then you see yourself alone because no one remembers that you are there and should have someone concerned to ask how you are and how you continue.
Life is a myriad of experiences and situations so strange that it is very far from the human mind to accept that things like this happen.
At the same moment that you feel so vulnerable, you have other people who are your loved ones going through similar or worse situations than the ones you are experiencing personally.
You find out that when you were bad your best friends were also bad. That none of them were able to communicate or know that you were going through bad situations because they were simply going through their own ordeals on the other side.
Things happen in life when they are meant to happen and it seems like a novel where we see things happen that are so unbelievable that in real life what happens is much more unbelievable than what happens in fiction.
The relationship of friendship cannot be discussed, when you have a friend it is because he has already been put in the spotlight and you just have to accompany him in those that arise either personally or in a symbolic way.
My own friends found out that I went through this situation of illness already when everything happened. They had no idea that I was going through such an unpleasant moment and today they call me to apologize and tell me that at the same time that I was sick they were sick too.
It sounds like science fiction but it is so, they were all in one bad state or another, but all at the same time. It seems unbelievable that life is so simple and so complicated at the same time.
I have learned not to take anything for granted until I know the true circumstances. And today I realize that my friends are there but they are also human and can present the same difficult situations that I go through on the same days and for the same amount of time.
We should not waste time in bitterness or bitterness and much less in making disparaging comments until we know the reasons why someone dear to us has not approached us in the most important moments of life and health.
Let's live happily and not fill ourselves with uncertainties and uncertain answers because life in its simplicity has very short answers for everything.
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I am @gertu13 from Venezuela to the world.
My Enemy
He is not gone yet. He is still among us and has grown stronger as an aggressor. Since he began his invasion he was seen and treated as a bitter enemy. I tried to stay as far away from him as I could. There comes a time when even if we run away from him he knows how to enter our lives.
I was vigilant, keeping all the necessary measures to avoid him and so I taught my son and family members. We should not leave home without maintaining a certain minimum of rules to avoid a confrontation with him.
I know beforehand that I am a weak woman inside certain parts of my organism so confronting him would bring me many disappointments because I know he will try to ram me. That is how it happened that he came to me through my son.
We were without power for 4 days, my son had to go out to find a place to work since his job is to stay connected to the internet for hours at a time. When he came back from his last day of street odyssey he had the enemy with him.
He began to have a headache, muscle pain, and a sore throat. By the third day, he had a high fever and was bedridden. I took care of him as best I could, but even though I kept hygienic safety measures in a place he was stronger than I was. My son had improved after 7 days with no further damage but that Saturday I came down with great weakness and a dry cough.
Then the muscle aches, headaches, and burning throat would not leave me alone. I tried to do the nasal swab test at home, as recommended by my doctor. I sent him to buy it and they couldn't get it. My pulmonologist saw me on the phone and suggested that I still continue to get the fluids and treatment to deal with the covid...so I did for a week.
My head, nostrils, and sinuses became congested with mucus, I could not sleep night or day because I could not tolerate lying down. On the fifth night I invented putting on several cushions and almost sitting up in my bed and it was my first-night sleeping sitting up.
I rested a lot. Then on the sixth day, I was less congested, and phlegm started to come out of my facial orifice nose, and mouth. And I felt healthy again.
After 7 days of facing this new enemy here, I am again telling my anecdotes. Nothing pleasant to have this virus among us but we cannot avoid it because we are not alone. What we can do is to fight it as best we can and win the battle.
I am @gertu13 from Venezuela to the world.
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An unimaginable world
When I ventured into the world of platforms I never imagined that it was not only about writing posts and interacting with other users, it was more than that. As the days went by I realized the underworld that is hidden here. You learn new skills.
As I was learning I found a multitude of experiences that I know from other regions, from countries that in my mind I imagined to know, now I know a little more.
The experiences that each user publishes serve to feed the spirit of those who read them. What other users write and share with others is important when it comes to learning and personal growth.
When I started on the platforms, my publications and way of expressing myself in writing were different, although at that time I thought my content was well narrated and presented, now that I have more time I realize that I committed many more imprudences than I realized.
I told many stories of my country as best I could, I made many descriptions of places that I visited throughout my life and I presented them in the best possible way so that the world would also know about the physical space where I am located.
I also got inspired by making cooking recipes and talking about another passion of mine, nature. Reading in retrospect I myself realize that being in these instances brings richness from many points of view.
I continue to strive to bring my best writing, my best advice, and my way of looking at life today. I commented that in my youth I committed many imprudences but what I did has given me a lot of knowledge and experiences that I always try to share.
For those who do not know me, I am more introverted than extroverted, it is very difficult for me to make friends but the few that I have, I have kept since my childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. They are few friends but they are my treasures. Now I have many virtual friends and that has been easier to maintain.
Here I met many more people that I call virtual friends. Some are younger and others older in terms of sharing. There are many that have stopped following me and others that I rarely visit, but I have pleasant memories of all of them.
There are many users who like to share their tips and there are others who although I have known them for months or even years, have never dared to leave a tip.
It all depends on the breadth of the heart of the givers, many give more than they have and others give nothing of what they have but that must make them happy because they never change.
This publication is not a criticism but rather a recognition of all the users who in one way or another share their little or they're much and do it with detachment. They are happy and that makes them great. Because besides learning about writing, culture, personal traits, opinions, religion, and many other points we also learn to value happy hearts.
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Flowers and more flowers
With the rains have come to bloom Zephyranthes plants, this is the scientific name of the rain lilies. These flowers come in a variety of pink, yellow, and white. I once had the pink flower in my garden but it has sadly disappeared.
This plant lives up to its common name of rain lily because it is when it is soaked by the continuous rains that it makes its triumphant reappearance with its beautiful white petals and its beautiful yellow pistils in the center.
I have transplanted several bulbs, at first I thought they were of the pink and white flower but I realize now that only the white ones have bloomed in all the pots where I planted them. I am forgetting about the pink color for the moment until I get it again in the market.
The flowers are not very long-lasting at least they stay for two days but in the evening they are picked to reopen the next day and then they say goodbye to make way for a new flower. They are the wonders of nature.
I love all the plants and all the colors in it, besides the rain lilies I can see how my other plants are blooming and taking advantage of the waters from the storms that have been passing very repeatedly through this region.
This is the flower of the Tradescantia Sillamontana. Its lilac hue makes it very showy although it is a very small flower of only about 7 cm. I like to take the photo in a macro so that you can appreciate how beautiful this flower is.
My smallest succulent flower is a Kalanchoe. The flower is barely 1 cm. And the leaves of the plant are barely half a centimeter long. Watching it bloom the size of the plant takes a back seat.
I would never have imagined the unique beauty in my garden if I had not first learned to see flowers in macro. Until I learned to use macro photography on my cell phone I had not even learned to love these little flowers as I love them now.
When we get to know better what surrounds us then we learn to love more what we did not know before.
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I'm @gertu13 from Venezuela to the world.
Difficult days.
It is very difficult for a person when he is ill to bear mentally that he is limited to external factors to perform daily labors.
Every rule has an exception which is the so-called hypochondriac. This is the person who will never be free from illness. Any day you ask him how the person is he will only say a series of symptoms that keep him a slave to his thoughts. In the end, he has no illness but it is his mind that creates all the unimaginable situations to convince others that he feels sick.
Going back to the initial point, I assure you that I would give anything for my body to listen to me and stop feeling sick. My son is past the peak of his discomfort. He is almost physically well, but you know what? Now it's my turn.
I haven't written for two days because I was very tired, had a very sore throat and a fever. Today I can say that thanks to medication, fluids, and prayers I am recovering.
I am not as bad as my son was. I am stronger and more used to the struggles. And today I only have a few symptoms like hoarseness, cough, runny nose, and some fever, nothing more. Thank God for that.
I tried to stay in confinement for 48 hours but I can't stand the confinement anymore. I came to my computer to write what I feel and how I have been feeling.
I looked at my plants through my bedroom window and just thought that they were blooming and I couldn't take the usual pictures because of my confinement so as not to spread the flu viruses or covid as my doctor calls it.
Health is something we long for when we feel fatigued. Because activities are minimized and although our mind wants to go on in the routine the body does not let you go on but pulls you to rest.
Only my body is suffering because my spirit is strengthened. I am a faithful believer in God's will, of course! I don't want to die, I want to continue on these paths with my son and with all the gifts that the Lord gives me day by day. The truth is that I put all my faith in Him and in His "His will and not mine be done." I know that He owns my life as well as my death, and when He decides I will accept His will. In the meantime I know that is not what is happening today.
No, it's not my departure yet, at least not with this disease. I will go on to get better, my mood is strengthened and my faith is unshakable.
For the illness of the body the best thing is rest, nutrition, and medication and for the feeding of the soul which is the most important thing is to keep firm faith, be cheerful, optimistic, and positive because this too will pass.
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I am @gertu13 from Venezuela to the world.
My son has covid
Five days ago he started with difficulty swallowing. This was followed by muscle pain and then continued with fever. On the second day of discomfort, I bought him the treatment for covid. In my country, all respiratory inflammatory processes must be treated in covid patients.
Today, Friday, she has been treated for 4 days to improve her most important problem, which is the burning in the pharynx that causes pain when she swallows. So the diet consists of all liquid food, lots of liquids, and especially tea.
It is difficult when we have sick people at home, we must try to give them as much peace of mind as possible at the cost of our own fatigue. To be sick is to lose the spirit, the forces, the fever exhausts the organism, and the disease saddens and worries. We must keep ourselves in good spirits to give more encouragement to the sick person.
Then we take care of ourselves when all the river returns to its source. Maintaining positivity in cases of illness becomes heavy and it is difficult because we tend to weaken our own forces and it is then when we can lose the battle and enter the category of patient.
I encourage myself, give myself strength, inspire myself, and listen to my tunes to stimulate my good thinking. And with that to encourage my son. And today I am here telling you that I am playing the role of mother, nurse, and doctor just for my son.
He is improving and will soon be another memory in the many cases of caring for family members with respiratory problems. This is the main cause of illness in my family.
As I have told you on other occasions our word has weight and a lot of power. I can only say that I am encouraged to give him messages of encouragement so that he continues to improve as soon as possible, in three days he completes the week of treatment and I will be writing another type of publication.
For the moment this is what my fingers can capture on this occasion. I hope you are well today whatever your needs are, physical, mental, or spiritual.
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I am @gertu13 from Venezuela to the world.
Words have weight
Many of us are quite sure what it means when we say that the "word has power" and I am not referring to the biblical content but to the true significance of it.
How can it be that a simple word has weight so that it can become a reality? From my point of view, I can tell you that we are made up of pure energy. Our body is made up of millions of atoms that have anions and cations capable of generating the energy of the world.
You have not noticed that when we say something like "be careful, you can .... "before we finish saying the complete word of.... fall, which would be the complement of the previous sentence, the person, thing, or animal to which we say it is already on the ground.
That is why we must watch what comes out of our mouths. And this is also biblical. What goes into our mouth does no more harm than what comes out of it. We have to learn to prescribe our brains and stop saying negative things all the time.
I can't, I won't make it, I'm tired of trying, everything goes wrong for me, watch you stumble, you'll fall if you do, and so many other judgments we make in life.
My friends, it is about the power with which we say things, it is about the strength we put into our tone of voice, and it is about the energy we put into our command. Knowing this, why don't we re-channel it and say different things.
Let's start by hearing ourselves when we sentence ourselves and then go to others. Things like... yes you can make it if you really want it. Get up, you are not finished, you are a capable person. Come on watch your step so that you do not encounter dangers because what can happen will surely happen.
Do not provoke the circumstances so that evil happens, promote your best effort so that everything flows. Treat the world with love, speak with love so that you can speak with love to the world. Pat yourself with encouragement, not discouragement.
I can do it, I can do it, and so can you. I fell and I hit myself but I don't have anything. It's just a little scratch. Let's not exaggerate things because that's what we always do and it becomes reality.
Let's use the power we have by speaking our best words with love, with hope, with blessings. We will see the change around us and in ourselves. Even if we see that something can go wrong let's change the way we say it to help with the strength that our voice has to make everything work in our favor and not in favor of the circumstances.
Have you seen the documentaries that are shown in the media? with people who are passing through someplace and because of cms, they have not been killed? Cars that go out of place, roofs that come off, streets that open up, floor covers that fall off as we pass, trees that shed branches or stalks just before or after we pass.
What do you think has happened here? Is it a coincidence? I don't believe in coincidences personally. I do believe in good vibrations in the environment that surrounds us to save us from ugly things.
I invite you to do this task of talking to each other with love, saying nice things to each other, of surrounding ourselves with good energies, ours and those of others around us. It feels great to be with people who seek the power of their minds with their voices and bless us all the time.
And what do you think your reader friend, do you believe that your word has power?
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I am @gertu13 from Venezuela to the world.
The evil continues
Continuing with the evil, there are several movies in the cinema where it is shown how people affected by great contamination by companies have fought to the death for having been infected.
The big companies, the multi-million dollar ones, have so much money that they have the luxury of sending out studies to verify that they are the pollutants of water for the use of entire populations, and after having discovered the total responsibility of the fact they simply pay again to silence the evidence.
There is a movie that I like and watch often and it stars Julia Roberts who played the role of a woman named Erin Brockovich who fought fiercely against the contamination of a city even against the multi-billion dollar company that was behind it all.
That company sickened and sickened many people and far from taking responsibility for polluting the water with mercury very cleverly blamed the people for their illnesses. Until this girl came along and cared about those people as human beings, feeling empathy for their cases. She fought until she won and then she continued to do so, always united with a law firm that fought against the transnationals that pollute the environment.
You know, this is not the first time I read something so frightening. In industrialized countries, they pollute the environment very often and they do the same as in this movie taken from real-life cases and in our present times.
I do not understand how money poisons the soul of the people who possess it. Money and love of neighbor do not go hand in hand. The bible says it well. They make people so selfish and so vile that they know they destroy lives and yet they pay for people to think they are to blame for their many lethal diseases.
I read yesterday about a case that happened many, many years ago in a town in the United States where the company worked with Radium, which we now know is highly polluting. In the company, they gave work to women who at first accepted the job because they were assured that Radium was not toxic and even women in those times were not given much of the existing jobs because of discrimination.
Over the years women began to have all kinds of diseases from their mouths to their intestines. And over time despite the billionaires who opposed the truth, even though they knew the truth because they did their diagnostic tests and then shut them up. The truth emerged after many deaths and struggles. The women were not listened to until over the years a lawyer took up the case. Many deaths before the truth came out to the world.
What worries me most is that it happened at the beginning of industrialization and since then it has been growing today transnationals continue to pollute the environment, spilling toxic gases and liquids into the environment and that does not intimidate them.
It is man's war against his species and as long as it generates income for them these alterations in the environment do not matter to them. They continue to make people who live near these companies sick and continue to manipulate the truth. It is a never-ending story, with no turning back and with a view to the progressive degeneration of the human species.
How far man's greed, wickedness, and selfishness will go. May God have mercy on us.
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I am @gertu13 from Venezuela to the world.
The disease of greed
Greed is a vile feeling. In some people, it is a pathology. Some people can present it and they do not realize the harm they are doing to themselves. Do you remember the character in the story of the man who gave nothing to his family, had no friends, and did not pay his employees a fair wage? Yes, I am talking about the famous Ebenezer Scrooge.
I also know that there have been many variants of the movie that try to highlight the great flaw of these people, such as the ghost of Christmas past. That it was a spirit that appears to this long-suffering gentleman to make him see what he was doing so far with the 70 years of age that he already had and was not going to leave a good thought on earth at the time of death.
I also heard the other story of a real-life lady who lived many years ago. I don't remember her name but I do remember her story. She was as stingy a lady as Ebenezer. She did not dress well, nor did she eat hearty or tasty, nor did she drink any liquids other than water, nor did she do anything good even for herself so that she would not have to waste her money.
She had only one dress so as not to spend on them, she washed the dress only in the part that dragged so as not to have to waste soap. She ate only what was necessary and they were soups where not many vegetables or meats were used so as not to spend too much on food and she drank little water. No juices or treats because she was so conservative.
Everything she earned at her job, which I don't remember hearing about, she invested to keep earning. She didn't have employees in her house, she didn't buy furniture and she didn't dirty so she didn't have to spend on cleaning.
What impressed me most about her story is that she had a son who at one point in his life fell to the ground and broke his leg. She took him to a hospital far away from where she lived so as not to be recognized. She took him to a charity hospital. There the doctor recognized her and asked her to give some money for the child's care. The lady, who had just come to that place so as not to spend money on her son, refused and took her son back home.
She took care of him herself. Of course, the child's leg suffered from gangrene, and sometime later the leg had to be amputated.
It is the height of greed when you don't have anything to share with yourself or your loved ones. She thought that saving all she could during her life was the best way to live. I don't know how she died but I imagine alone, without a friend or family to remember her.
Greed is encouraged. From a young age, we get the idea that we have to suffer many needs to achieve our goals, and after achieving the first goals, the second and third ones come out, and so during our whole life, we will open new ways of not spending on anything to save.
Do you think this is the best way to live? Or can we make some changes so that this sin does not take root in our lives?
I once felt the need to save to get what I wanted and I did it with such determination that after a year I got what I wanted and then I went on to the next one. And I ended up with the third time. Then I realized that years went by and I had not enjoyed my vacations because all my vacations I worked to save.
Thank God I realized that and started to live a little more. With everything I got, I realized that with discipline and effort you get what you want. I got it and now I have another goal in my life but I am not so demanding. I live my day by day and I am sharing. In the end, I think that when my time comes I will have a friend and a family member who will remember me fondly and say a prayer for me.
How is your life? Are you greedy?
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I am @gertu13 from Venezuela to the world.
Do you think evil has an ugly face and horns?
I have been reading in the last few days stories about very evil people. I also read a comment from someone who says that you should be wary of people who say they are very happy in their families and that everything is going well. Many of them have been found to have personality disorders and are psychopaths.
I immediately thought of myself and said to myself, God, but I always affirm that things should not be taken to death, that everything passes, that everything bad has a good end. Could it be then that I am a psychopath?
Well, there is also the other comment that says that when a person recognizes that he may be crazy it is because he is not since the disease itself is in the mind and does not allow self-criticism.
The fact is that I want to tell you about several cases I have read about people who have been so bad that they have disturbed even their own families.
There is a man who called himself an apostle of his church and had very bad habits with his wife. The power he exercised over her came from his parents and her parents.
His parents were of strong temperament and took him to be a missionary of the church to climb positions and the girl's family were very conservative people who prepared their daughter to serve her husband in everything as the bible says.
This is how this mentally deranged man abused her as he wanted and no one noticed because none of them looked bad outside the house. Until the woman in question got tired and thought of freeing herself from her husband by molesting him. Then no one believed everything she said about her depraved deceased husband. Until the evidence made him known.
These days I read about a niece who complained about her uncle. He groomed her physically and mentally from her innocent life for him. Until he deceitfully outraged her and she went to court. Nobody believed him because he was a very respectable man, but the evidence came to light.
I learned about the case of an aunt who entrusted her son to her sister until she realized that her sister was putting the two cousins to sleep in the same bed, one 11 years old and the other 4 years old. The 4-year-old started complaining to the teacher about pain in his rectum, and the teacher told the boy's mother that the boy was complaining about pain in his rectum.
The mother took him to the doctor who found signs of penetration, and the boy told her that his cousin was playing with him. It is very sad to think that even in the family you can find these things of the depravity of the human being with the most defenseless.
Communication in a family is very important. Always talk to your children about the problems that afflict them, about the friends they have, about the people with whom they relate.
We are in crisis because now the wickedness of human beings is being seen more frequently and without reserve. Children no longer ask permission to go out with their friends, but rather they go with them at once. Just as a parent can know who their child is with and talk to them.
My friends, I don't know what you think but I believe that evil has us on trial and that we must be staunchly vigilant with everything that happens around us with our loved ones and friends.
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I am @gertu13 from Venezuela to the world.
The storm of my torment.
My dear readers, it is a pleasure to be here again after 4 days of absence. I tell you that in my country the season of hurricane winds and tropical storms has arrived. Last Tuesday there was a storm that surprised us all because it was not reported by the disaster media, but it happened that it did not stay for long but for about an hour between the strong breeze and the rain.
Ah but the thing did not stay there and the damage occurred in the electrical networks of my city, a disaster had happened.
From the comments and readings I made, the tower that contained all the electricity beams of a city that makes up a large percentage of the total population of the state had succumbed to the storm leaving us without electricity from Wednesday morning until today when they began to ration the light. Three hours of light for 6 hours without it started in the early morning.
So here I am updating you on the natural disasters that occur because of man. It is always said that the rulers are our servants, what happens when they forget to serve? Well, this happens, there is no way to maintain the equipment and the citizens are not aware of maintaining the assets of the nation.
The tower collapsed because criminals stole the bases that kept the tower in balance. And so it collapsed and the electrical system collapsed. Until last night, people went out into the streets to make noises, banging pots and pans, pipes, and any other material that could make thunderous noises. They were in the streets until midnight.
My joy was when I realized that the fan in my room started blowing and I knew that I could finally sleep more than two hours at a time.
My friends, we don't appreciate how much happiness we have at home when there is light and something to give us relief from the heat on sleepless nights. It is only when we have no light that we appreciate the lack of electricity in climates as hot as my region in my country, where temperatures are always very high.
I just wanted to let you know the current events in my life and the reason for the absence, hoping you are well today.
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I am @gertu13 from Venezuela to the world.
Ginger plant.
This plant belongs to the Zingiberaceae family. Its scientific name is Zingiber Officinalis. It has a time for its harvest. It obtained its rhizome, which is not the root that is well known in all culinary arts. In Asian food, it is never missing in the dishes. And in my kitchen, it is not missing either. This spice together with turmeric makes an infallible duo in my dishes.
Ginger as a rhizome is widely used in meat dishes, marinades, sauces, cookies, and drinks. The good thing about consuming this rhizome is that it can be used both fresh and after being dehydrated and used as a powder. It can also be used in paste.
I prepare my paste which I use after I get the rhizomes. I wash them, remove the shell and proceed to liquefy them with a little oil and the juice of a lemon to prevent rapid oxidation. I then store the paste in previously sterilized glass containers. I also use it fresh for a few days after harvesting.
It is a plant with high content of calcium, iron, phosphorus, proteins, and carbohydrates. In addition to its high liquid component. This, together with its special flavor and aroma, makes it very useful in home and gourmet cooking.
Its use has been scientifically proven to combat coughs, sore throat, fever, stomach upset, flatulence, flu, herpes, inflammations in any part of the body, headaches, and many more. It can be consumed with meals or boiled as tea or in aromatic infusions.
The plant has elongated green leaves. On an erect stem whose leaves grow on each side of the stem. It can be grown both in the ground and in pots. It has its estimated time for harvesting the rhizome.
Its reproduction is done through the collection of small rhizomes, alone or with the germination of stems. They are placed in the pot and after a few weeks, we will have a new plant whose growth is slow. A small rhizome will give rise to a large number of new rhizomes in about 8 months.
The plant grows very well in semi-shade and with the humidity of the substrate. It can also be used as an ornamental plant as its tall leafy green stems grow as a good-looking shrub in pots.
I highly recommend all friends of plants and gardening to have this plant in their gardens.
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I am @gertu13 from venezuela to the world.
Zinnias are blooming
I would like to have this flower in my garden again but I have not planted it. I like the varied flowers, having to wake up and see through the window that the flowers are open and giving me their many colors.
The Zinnias Elegans as its scientific name also receive as popular name paper flower or mystic rose.
The Zinnias are plants of Mexican origin but are distributed in tropical or warm climate zones. They are perennial plants whose flowers remain erect and colorful for several days after which when the flower dries, it is removed from the plant to continue its propagation.
Zinnias come in a variety of colors, these are in a friend's garden. I did not stop to ask for seeds because it is the first time that I go to his garden but I did not want to ask for them. In fact, I have already thought that on my next visit I will ask for these beautiful flowers.
The zinnias come in different colors and shapes. Some have few petals and others have abundant petals and look a bit like Dahlias. They are pompons because of their rounded shape although they are still the same plant. There are yellow, orange, red, pink, green, purple, and white.
It is not a very demanding plant, it loves the sun and minimal watering conditions, plus compost rich in organic matter to remain in abundant bloom.
I hope to post about it again but only when this beautiful plant is blooming in my garden.
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I am @gertu13 from Venezuela to the world.
A happy birthday
My niece had a birthday on Saturday, her 12th birthday. She was very happy, either because of the presents she had or because of the outfit her mom gave her of an anime actor. The truth is that she was extremely happy and her joy was contagious. Those bulging eyes and that happy smile are not very often seen in her and I wanted to capture in my photos this beautiful memory of her happiness that was also a little bit mine.
She is the daughter of my niece, that is, her mother is the daughter of my older brother. I saw them at birth. Both have passed through my arms as babies. I was only 17 years old when the mother of the birthday girl was born. The second of my nieces. Her memories come to mind on this birthday. How can you remember so many years ago, today is 12 years ago and her mother is 45 years ago.
Her mother made her a delicious cake in the colors of her favorite anime actor. She was also able to arrange the table decorations for her and make all these sweet motifs to celebrate with her.
My niece has a special gift with her hands and she can sew, knit, embroider, make ornaments to wear and table decorations, also wall decorations, or anything she sets her mind to in crafts.
She had a great time with her group of cousins and friends, they danced, ate and enjoyed their joyful evening that ended at 9 pm thanks to a sudden rain that interrupted the beautiful evening and moved the whole celebration to two hours later.
At the end, we sang their birthday and it was so nice to be there with them.
The photographs are my own taken with my Redmi note 9 phone.
I am @gertu13 from Venezuela to the world.
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