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You deserve a healthy love with someone who hears you, sees you, understands you, appreciates you, supports you, and loves you. Someone who is patient, communicates clearly, and creates a calm safe space to heal, grow, and bloom together. A love you don't have to heal from.

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growth will also feel like loss. remember that

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554. In the world of the suicide, God too has killed himself. For this reason, alas, the act no longer possesses the cachet of blasphemy.

—Hermann Burger, Tractatus Logico-Suicidalis

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“Nothing is more dangerous than the influence of private interests in public affairs.”

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

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The thing is, Latin American identity is not something that began a couple years ago because we all think El Chavo del 8 is cool. It is born out of struggle. Conquest, genocide and slavery were the inheritance of the Iberian empires. The independent states had, and still have, to deal with neocolonialism and the remains of the racist elitist structures reinforced by eurocentrism, which are just getting dismantled at a great cost, with many setbacks. The history of Latinoamérica is not pretty. There is racism, there is genocide, slavery, oppression, and imperialism that still continues to this day.

Cinco siglos igual.

This is why the Latin American identity is based not only in shared culture, but a shared historical struggle against oppression. It's not only fiesta and carnaval and stuff, it's not all cultural exchange and utopian harmonious communities living in peace, it's also a shared consciousness of our place in the world, among the oppressed nations, the Third World. This is why people of so many different backgrounds consider themselves, and thus are, Latin American, which is a concept hard to grasp for Usamericans used to separate communities in discrete units, while our main identity as members of our many nations is this, Latin American. Some people identify more strongly with it, others don't, and everybody has different ideas on how to deal with this, but it is a pervasive "ghost" that hangs over our heads. The pain of the open veins, if you want to get all poetic.

So here we stand then, with our common identity shaped by a cycle of violence that continues to this day. The question that remains is: do we choose to continue it out of greed and negligence, or do we choose to join together in struggle to create a fair, just and free society for all of us? Se los dejo como tarea para la casa.

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— roach-works

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I am good. I am loved.

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One day, you will understand the compass in your chest is not broken but simply asking you to look within for the maps you drew before the world told you where to go.

May Aygun

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— Nicole Lyons

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“Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth – more than ruin, more even than death.”

— Bertrand Russell, Why Men Fight

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554. In the world of the suicide, God too has killed himself. For this reason, alas, the act no longer possesses the cachet of blasphemy.

—Hermann Burger, Tractatus Logico-Suicidalis

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Maybe life doesn't get any better than this, or any worse, and what we get is just what we're willing to find: small wonders, where they grow. - Barbara Kingsolver

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