I've come back exercise. I think it's been a month since that. And among the things I'm doing again, well, walking came back to mind. In 2018, I used to walk in the afternoons because I was in my last semester. There was a lot of stress and things to do. That simple activity help me with productivity.
After walking, I'd come back home and make classroom materials and plan activities. Get a lot of my reading for the Special Literature Courses I was taking. It also helped with the ideas for the essays in those courses. Kept my weight at bay and more. It was such a fun thing to do.
Then, as usual, I got sick with seasonal allergies and I stopped. I'm coming back to this from dengue and I still feel my body needs a lot of resistance training. So, walking again seems like a reasonable choice. However, I decided to change the schedule. Why not trying to go for a walk early in the morning? It was nuts at first. Getting up early is not the problem; it's getting out of bed. But after that and a first lap, everything turns out for the better.
The best part of doing this is having the chance to spot some colourful cats around the neighbourhood. But the cream of the crop is certainly the sky and its changes of hue before and after dawn. I've taken some pictures when I'm not too distracted with music or a cat.
Some are of my house and the last is one of the streets I walk. There's something about the sky that brings joy. It's like watching an ever-shifting painting. The brush of time chances the shapes and colours as it pleases with a little help of the weather. It is definitely a nice perk of going for a walk before dawn.
However, I wouldn't be coming around here to tell the good about this. Don't get me wrong. The neighbourhood is beautiful and the sky is gorgeous. What's the matter? Well, again we are going without water for 72 hours...
Seriously, I don't get how these people work. Last week we had an interruption in the service. It was 48 hours! We have stored water and it might be enough. But I'm not worrying about us. I wonder how people in the other coast fare with this. Cumana has natural water sources but in Araya, well, semi-arid weather is some borderline desert-like. It is an important place because a big percentage of all the salt we consume in the country comes from there. Nonetheless, I don't get how people still live in that place. There's almost no water at any given moment.
There's this story about the poet Cruz Salmerón Acosta, a native person of that place. When he died (his death came as a result of contracting leprosy and dying close to the time when the cure was developed), it is said his death wish was for his people to get water. And so they did.
They had 3 days of pouring rain. They couldn't even bury him because of all the water. I think that's the last time they had running water around there. And I'm talking about an event that took place in the second decade of the 20th century.
Services are dying little by little. Worst part of it is that there's no competition and the State "runs" all the major things. If there was only another choice to prevent this whole ordeals we could have some respite. I just wonder when will be the time the whole basic services collapse beyond repair. We had a taste of the in 2019 with the general blackout. The blame was put in Washington and an electromagnetic attack.
This commies, people. They are the best bullsh*tters in the world. We'd rather blame the U.S than acknowledge the damage they have caused the country. And they think everyone is as stupid as them to believe their fabrication.
Lack on maintenance is the problem around here. The electric service is running on fumes. Water has been showing lots of problems daily with broken pipes and else. Let's not talk about Internet, lest I jinx it.
With thing like this, it is a luxury to have the time to get a walk and let all this crap go away from my mind. If only it were a permanent solution, but hey, at least the sky is pretty. And those imbeciles can't take that away even if they tried.