RE: The famine

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Damn. I have a bit of personal experience with hunger, spent over a year homeless and living on the streets a while back. Still, that was a personal rather than collective experience, while times were bad then it sounds nowhere near as bad as 2016 was for you. It still seems insane how much time simply acquiring basic necessities can consume when scarcity prevails.

I'm afraid that my country (United States) is in no small part responsible for what you experienced, for what it's worth you have my apologies and sympathy. Sanctions are a weapon of those who have never experienced scarcity I suspect.

My grandparents grew up during the Great Depression here back in the 1930s, even sixty years later they still had an aversion to wasting anything, which they passed along to us (my granny would even was and reuse disposable drinking straws) . Trauma response I suspect but at the same time an experience of that sort gives you a different appreciation of things and their importance. Your mother acting like she was on clouds was probably a different sort of trauma response, her brain just couldn't take it anymore and dissociated.

Glad you made it through all that and were able to share this with us.



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Thank you for your thoughtful comment. I'm sorry you have experienced hunger yourself, it's something I hope no one would have to endure. Still, hard times allow us to forge our character and make the choice of becoming better human beings.

I'm afraid that my country (United States) is in no small part responsible for what you experienced, for what it's worth you have my apologies and sympathy. Sanctions are a weapon of those who have never experienced scarcity I suspect.

I appreciate your words. They do mean something. I believe the root of the problem goes way beyond the sanctions, and the threat of famine is always there whenever greed takes the wheel. There is simply not enough for everyone. It's perhaps very naïve to expect governments from all around the world to truly grasp the consequences of their actions, good and bad, what they do and don't do. It's just people, with a lot of power. I wish we were better at picking up the ones in control.

Trauma response I suspect but at the same time an experience of that sort gives you a different appreciation of things and their importance. Your mother acting like she was on clouds was probably a different sort of trauma response, her brain just couldn't take it anymore and dissociated.

Yes, trauma responses can indeed vary. I'm thankful every day for having had the right mindset back then to try and keep things afloat. For my brothers.

Glad you made it through all that and were able to share this with us.

Thank you!

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