Adversity is what brings out the best in us
This is a publication based on the suggested topic proposed in the Hive Learners community through their discord, which on this occasion is "Hardest Of 2024".
This year is almost over and I must say that 2024 has been surprising from its beginning to what has happened up to this moment. I have been in a lot of really difficult and complicated situations. The first thing I am going to tell you about is a bleeding ulcer that I have had on my leg practically since March or February of this year. And apparently I am diabetic, I have never wanted to take the tests but everything indicates that I am and it is almost certain that this is the case. Well, wounds, when I get them by accident, take a long time to heal or close. And such is the case that in February or March of this year I hit a part of the table where I work, where my computer is, and I hurt my left leg. It started to bleed and I didn't close that wound. As time went by, an increasingly larger wound was created and what I did was remove the blood or scabs that accumulated there to clean the wound and keep it healthy so that it wouldn't I would get infected trying to avoid any infection. However, the wound did not close no matter how hard he tried. It's already October and the wound has a scab that I can't remove because I'm waiting for it to heal. And that has been the greatest difficulty I have because precisely that hurts me, it has hurt a lot for many months, the pain has now subsided, the body itself has gone through the process of eliminating the infection using white blood cells. I have taken antibiotics, I have helped myself, I have cleaned the wound with antiseptics and using everything I can and I still have that problem. Needless to say, the situation around this whole problem has turned the environment into a nest of stress and anguish for me, because living in a country with a situation as politically complex as Venezuela is, feeling all the time that your life is at risk, that there is political instability and that the price of food and all the corruption and all the news that you see, or that you learn about on social networks, make you anxious, believe as much as possible. stress and precisely the response at the bodily level produces anxiety, it obviously causes the wound to bleed more or there is a predisposition to not heal, precisely because at the psychological level all these anxiety mechanisms create anxiety and make the healing process more difficult and the same process of living. This has been very hard in the year 2024, added to this situation in the country, the financial crisis has prevented me from being able to comply with certain obligations, such as the payment of the condominium, which I have arrears of around 200 dollars or more, because the money (and I have already repeated it on other occasions here in Hive), the rewards I receive here are not enough to cover all the expenses I have. Including the leg, including clothing expenses because I only have one pair of blue jeans, which are all worn and torn and I have no way of replacing them, a single pair of shoes that are in the same condition, I therefore have problems with overweight and not enough clothes to be able to wear at the moment and I really need to renew a series of things that I explain in this publication that I made a while ago, commenting on all the problems I have. 2024 has been an extremely difficult year for me, I have been successful in overcoming it, I do not think I have been completely successful because the year is not over yet, I continue to fight against that and other challenges that I have acquired. I have recently had the honor of being appointed as curator of a new project called "Los Chihuiritos" and I have a new responsibility on Saturdays to serve the entire Hispanic community, which receives very low evaluation in its publications, or which is not stimulated because it is not benefited with good votes for the publications they make. This project is a new responsibility that I have to take care of during the week, in terms of planning the activity for every Saturday, it is a new obligation, a new challenge that makes 2024 very hard because I am going to have less time to be able to make my content, to share, but I am also giving a good part of my knowledge and my life to everyone and I do this on my own initiative, I do not have any economic benefit for doing this, this is a job Voluntary, no one forces me to do it, but it was proposed to me and I decided to participate. So among other things, this has been the most difficult thing for me in 2024 and it continues to be trying to heal my leg, trying to stay alive, doing all these activities, publishing daily, because my publication rate is almost a daily publication for a long time, maintaining this rhythm is difficult and above all you will understand that there are times when it took me three or four days to stop publishing, because my mind needs recreation, it needs to relax, I need to lower the pressure level of everything how hard this 2024 has been. This is my black cat "manclar", this account is to honor his dead (it happened years ago). Thumbnail image maded using Bing AI and edited with Canva.com
"True strength is not in defeating others, but in defeating oneself"
Image maded by Bing AI
Image maded by Bing AI
Image maded by Bing AI
Credits:
The text dividers were made by me using aseprite