Greetings,

Dear friends after a few days of inactivity I resume my publications with the creative writing that our friend @galenkp poses us in his #weekend-engagement, this week this topic that I leave you below captures my attention.

Somewhere else
Do you ever wish you lived somewhere else? Explain where and why in a post of 300+ words using photos you took personally where possible.

With the crisis that the country is going through many Venezuelans had to consider this situation, truly as the colloquial saying goes it is not easy to leave but it is not easy to stay either.

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A few years ago when I only had my oldest daughter and my parents alive for several months I thought about the idea of emigrating I still had savings that allowed me to think about this possibility, my mother at that time with cancer told me not to do it that there was no need that if one is successful and believes in God there is no crisis that stagnates us and that times are passing.

I think that these words of encouragement so to speak were more thinking that she knew that she was in her last days and would not be with her, after all the company with which I worked were opening a workshop in Panama and I thought that with them I had a chance but this possibility went away from their north leaving me rather in charge here of the company while they consolidated the new headquarters in Panama.

After that I began to look for other horizons and a friend offered me to go to Chile with him until I could become independent and then take my wife and daughter, at this time if I sold several motorcycles I had and began to send the money to him for me to go alone with my suitcase, for some reason it was creating distance on the trip and my mother died a month after my first tentative date of travel and that led me to remember his words.

When this happened all my plans changed and I decided to stay at home to support my dad with his grief, as the days passed the crisis increased and my wife got pregnant with my second child, her aunt had gone to Ecuador with one of her daughters and they offered me a job and where to go, this led me again to think about leaving.

But between conversations with them of their day to day there was something that made me reflect and desist, it turns out that she already had six months there and still had no TV or washing machine, was when I said how I'm going to go and then gather to bring my family if they alone and without responsibility here could not buy their basic appliances.

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A very successful friend also had plans to leave and told me to have a coffee and talk when that meeting took place we only talked about that what we had to leave we could invest in a venture here and not need to leave, there was born my bakery which later failed because of the shortage of raw materials and my savings went with it.

And not having savings and the idea of leaving was gone, then my twins were born which anchored me more to not leave.

Now if you ask me if I imagine living somewhere else, yes I do and very much, first of all I would like to buy my parents' house and finish building it to live with my family in the place where I grew up but creating and distributing the spaces as I have them in my mind, I also dream of having a farm near the city where I can dedicate 100% to my goats and also to plant and live as much as possible in an organic and self-sustainable way.

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After the death of my dad already thinking about the two spaces is more difficult but my parents house is spacious and I can make part of the two things work here and just get where to have the planting as my goats I can organize them a well organized and functional space here.

These thoughts are very possible to materialize I am only 15k$ away from achieving it 🤣🤣 maybe for those who read from other countries see it little but from here doing it is not so simple although I have learned that economic situations are particular and do not depend on crises or bonanzas of a country, meanwhile we continue working to materialize these thoughts.

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Thank you for joining me in this publication and may God bless you greatly, the photos are my property taken with the Infinix Hot 10 i cell phone.