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As I was reading, days after coming back from my first ever visit to the USA, shocked by the lifestyle there and how gross the super-ultra-processed-food is, I come to read this and I was thinking that it's curious how my own experience has developed the opposite way. I used to be very sad, I used to think life was a burden, a terrible experience I was forced to have, one I felt completely guilty to escape, how would my parents feel? How would my sisters feel? I couldn't do it, but I was a depressed teenager, the world was such a mess, so much injustice, so much poverty, pollution, genocide and carelessness. Oh my, being Uruguayan is hard, our culture is so critical... Yet, there had to be something ahead, right? I always felt there had to be some kind of something. That kept me going. But I have been through depression many times, what a stupid world mankind keeps sustaining! Yet, in my thirties, I came to Peru and I started to connect with the Earth, I met people who see the universe in such a simpler, more loving, kinder way; I found my husband, who makes my life much brighter and inspires me to be a better woman, and I started FEELING there IS a reason underneath this nonsense of a world. All of these things you talk about make me sad and angry, but there's something deeper inside of me that keeps me going, believing and loving life. I don't know what it is, I can't write one of those inspirational books either. But I am way happier than I was 20 years ago. Because I've found that there's still people not buying this nonsense, who keep nurturing their soil and their animals the way their parents and grandparents did for hundreds of years, little ladies in their nineties who graze their sheep up in the Andes and sit on a rock to weave a scarf for their 3rd great-grandchild, believing the wheel of life will forever go on. I don't know how, but this land and these people saved me. And reading this, I come to realize about it once again. It's a weird week for me, having seeing the so called 1st world first hand for the first time in my life. It's a weird world, where people don't walk and enjoy their 55c guns on a weekend.

So thank you, your writing is really good and no matter what you write about, I always get hoooked.

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Mountain Mama musings's avatar

Yes... to all of this 🙏🙏🥺🌄💓

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