Weird times we are living...

There is nothing more disturbing than seeing other co nationals dying or suffering. Particularly when the people you see falling are the ones close to you, the ones that you work day by day with, or the ones that like you, try to make a living breaking their backs daily looking for a better future.

Pain, destruction, illness, and despair seems to be the theme of this year here in Mexico. Since I came back a couple years ago from the "outside", the country appears to show the cruel and raw face that one tends to forget when you are away. The poverty line grows with no control extending its former limits to terrains never before imagined.

Teachers from all over the country go on strike for half year just because they refuse to take the new empowering education reform, denying children the right to obtain high quality academic instruction, and impeding a whole country to grow intellectually.

The fear of getting robbed, staved, gunned down, or kidnapped its starting to root itself up in everyone of our national's idiosyncrasies. No one dares to believe in the institutions and authorities genuineness, everybody doubts, everyone wants to take revenge by their own hands, we all want to make the law be enforced, but nobody knows for sure what the law really is or means.

Today I knew of the death of a close coworker, dead at 24 because of the hemorrhagic dengue that's currently taking thousands of lives a day around the world. I had last seen her a few days ago at the school's entrance, picking up scattered origami stars smashed from a broken jar that she had just dropped. I stopped to help her picking them up from the floor, she looked pale, she only thanked me right before vanishing forever.
People mentioned that she had been feeling ill several days before she past away, getting vomits, high fevers, and chills, and that she only could keep taking aspirin to relief some of the pain and be able to be attending work.

Ironically the teacher being a science bachelor, had forgotten that acetil salicilic acid turns blood lighter, and when a HD infection is present, the general hemorrhage is inevitable. Here we got another unfortunate case where ignorance takes a high toll, everybody should know what to do or not to do, and how to identify the effects of this tropical virus that is attacking my country at epidemic levels. However, no signs, no information pamphlets, nor a TV commercial was displayed warning people about how to prevent it or treat it.

When she arrived to the hospital, they wouldn't take her in, they only asked her to go home and rest; they knew she was in the final stages of the disease, no one would want to afford an already terminated person.

It is sad to see young people die, it is weird to find out that life is so fragile and evanescent. I can't avoid thinking about how quick life goes by right in front of our eyes, you never really know or expect when the big switch of death will go down on you. We should try to keep it on a little longer no matter what.