Just today I wanted to write to you about how to handle the uncertainty in these moments when inside and outside Venezuela we are living a transcendent moment in our history.
Human beings have the illusion of being in control of most of what happens in our lives, and in reality, it is just that, an illusion.
Now, this illusion is healthy and necessary because there is no way to achieve our goals in life if we leave all the loose ends waiting for magical and ideal solutions: that people change from one day to the next without communicating our annoyances to them. Or to wish that the government systems of our countries improve without making changes in our private and public spheres.
Uncertainty is a part of everyone's life.
Is it going to work? I would say: I don't know, but if I don't row hard in most of my goals, ideas, and projects I assure you that nothing will change. I always try to handle uncertainty with TEMPERANCE and without ceasing in the EFFORTS that each situation that presents itself to me deserves.
Three days ago, a good friend who lives in the Dominican Republic wrote to me to ask me for an opinion about a website. I jumped off the couch. My bilirubin went up. She was my collaborator for 7 years. With her, I learned that the distance between a good idea and seeing results was the effort and the right company.
Our job was to take university talent where it was most needed: to the most disadvantaged communities in our country. I was the volunteer coordinator and I worked surrounded by people who did what they liked. (Yes, that's wonderful.) So when Jannet, wrote to me, I connected with that time, and naturally, as always when one works with her, creativity emerges and actions are fluid.
Why these actions, in the face of so much uncertainty?
To achieve donations that allow to sustain the social projects that manage to benefit more than 20,000 people (yes! Twenty thousand!) and that today, due to the serious crisis of the country, they are at risk. What idea came up?
Doing what I like.
A solidarity Bazaar is being organized, for the second Sunday of September 2023, where we will have several stands, with various products at very good prices, and these sales lead many people to spend what they have not spent at another time of the year.
We will also have several booths, so people can donate products and services to keep these projects going. There are no minimum amounts nor are we waiting for them to make a donation that exceeds their economic capacity, but with amounts in BS or in $, that are manageable for the pocket, because Everything Adds Up. Do you want to join?... This is our motto, "Living is urgent".
Okay. I started calling people. I had time to call in those cyber volunteers in my city, and they told me that yes. Furthermore, I still lack people, and I think more people could join...yay...
In my country, many of us try to help those who are here, by giving a hand. Dads, uncles, borrowed friends, and new networks are also generated. Building those networks(cyberweb)can be a strength, and it's incredibly complex. And it is a silent process, which generates new connections, sometimes unexpected.
The theme of solidarity is tattooed on my heart, and I do it with the greatest professionalism and passion in the world. There is so much to do in my community. I am and will be more human than perfect. I live with my feet on the ground and dreams anchored in my mind and action.
On the cover image, the most beautiful sun you give them to us my dear Caribbean. I am grateful, for this day sky was very beautiful, while, we were planning with my collaborators, the solidarity September Bazaar.
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