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I understand that feeling all too well. Do you really have no one by your side for those moments? It can be hard sometimes to tell the difference between perceived loneliness and “real” loneliness.

As an example, when I was a teenager, many of the times I felt lonely, I was actually isolating myself so as not to bother anyone. So, whenever something bad happened to me, I didn’t have anyone to help me.

Learning to feel comfortable with yourself and to be grateful to those who are with you in the present.

Everyone gets off the train sooner or later, including ourselves. Don’t worry about it, just enjoy the ride and the company of the moment.

My main one’s are Sonic The Hedgehog and, now that Konami is FINALLY putting out GOOD games again, Silent Hill.

Others are Hollow Knight, Warhammer 40K, Neon Genesis Evangelion and Jojo’s Bizarre Adventures

Same.

Nothing. Not even talk to them. Being cordially distant.

It definitely is. You can go anywhere you want at any time. You aren’t going to find anything, but that’s kinda the point of the whole game.

In short: many of those who say that have never played Shadow of the Colossus.

(In my opinion at least)

With dad: mundane stuff, like the whether and such.

With mom: geopolitical, philosophical and historic analysis about current events… And mundane stuff too.

The thing is, my mom is an Historian with a PhD, while my dad worked for an oil company. Also, I hanged out with my mom more while growing up cuz dad had to work in others states for weeks, so I couldn’t see him much.

Regardless, I enjoy talking with both of them. Mostly cuz I don’t make much of it, I don’t try to be smart, clever or anything. I just speak my mind out with naturality, depending on how my relationship with the person I’m talking to is.

I understand perfectly. I can read it, I can hear it, I can write it. The only thing I can’t do, even if my life depended on it, is speak it. But that’s the fault of English and its non-existent pronunciation rules. That shit is based entirely on ✨vibes✨.

Now I get why spelling bee is such a big deal in the US, jeez…

I would say that here in Venezuela, the existing generations can be divided into:

• 4th Republic/Pre-Chávez: all those who were born before 1998 and lived before Hugo Chávez’s term in office.

  • They are characterized by being more conservative, as they lived in a time before the rise of the left and Chavismo and know a different Venezuela.

• 5th Republic / Bolivarian Revolution: All those who were born and lived during Chávez’s term from 1998 until his death. That is my generation.

  • Many of us are either very progressive, because our parents who voted for Chávez believed in his ideas, or very conservative for the opposite reason. We are much more politically aware than previous and subsequent generations.

• Post-Revolution / Madurismo: Everyone who was born and grew up during the crisis that followed Chávez’s death and Maduro’s term in office. My nephew’s generation.

  • There are no Chávez supporters here, as they did not get to experience a time when things were not so bad; austerity, scarcity, and misery are all they know. Many of them are now abroad.

• Pandemic: all children born during the pandemic. This includes my other niece.

  • They are still too young to say what their character is like. Most are children of Venezuelans who went abroad, so their idea of what the country is like, if they are still abroad, is influenced by their parents and the media.

(needles to say, I’m not a sociologist or anything. All this comes from pure observation)