To Make Matters Worse in Cuba
HAVANA TIMES – Perhaps one of the saddest and most painful forms of decline is becoming accustomed to it. Doing nothing to change it. Simply letting time pass while life and joy gradually fade before our eyes, alongside us, with us.
It is a succession of small losses that, when added together, become overwhelming: less food, less water, less electricity, fewer rights, less ability to demand change or to take part in shaping anything that resembles the future.
What is happening to us as we wait, adapt, and resign ourselves? Our lack of action is stripping away our substance. We are becoming more and more like ghosts. There is guilt, there is fear, there is helplessness and self-censorship, and we are constantly calculating the possible consequences. Or perhaps not. Maybe the daily struggle to survive leaves us with no time even to think.
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