Once a good friend told me to write down to
take of fear. And I must admit that writing it can be a good therapy. Now I’m writing to take of sadness.
On last Sunday, we had presidential elections. It
was the end of a long run to try to win over the actual president who has
already 14 years in the government.
We, democrat citizens, were full of hope, this
time we will see a change… it’s going to be a turn back to democracy here in
Venezuela, and we felt in love of our candidate, a young healthy lawyer, with lot
of experience in politics, he was Major and Governor, so we had the feeling
that he can make a change. And he is making a change.
On that Sunday, we went to vote, and were the
biggest assistance to vote in the last 20 years of our political story. But, there are
always a but, people has spoken, and our candidate lost the election.
On Monday, the feeling was heart brokering, the
best way to describe it, is remembering when you finish a relationship with your
boy or girlfriend, and you are in a mourning process, denial, anger, and
acceptation.
We are in that process. We are mourning the loss of illusions, and
trying to re- build the parts and keep walking and working, re- thinking on
what went wrong, what we needed to do and didn’t did, and, what is the next
step to follow?
In my case, I cleaned up my eyes, and decided
to use this feeling to start to work and build, there is a path we opened, we
need to keep it and take care of it, it’s now the time to face our reality: we
are a young Country, with lot of things to overcome, but, as we are a young
Country, we are young, and youth have with itself the ability to reconfigure
the map to make it better. So, yes, this was a failure, but we are not
defeated, we won confidence, and a very important thing: we take back some
spaces we were lost in the past years, and now we are sending a very clear
signal: we know what we want and we go for it, because we now know that yes, we
can do it, we can work as one mind, and yes, we’ll keep on fighting to the end.
And the end is the turn back to democracy until it’s become in the only game in
town.